Pharmacists will have to transform themselves into pharmacotherapists

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The challenge for pharmacists over the next 20 years will be to transform themselves into pharmacotherapists,Bill Scott,Scotland's chief pharmaceutical officer,believes.Pharmaceutical care is,he stressed,not about medicines and not about medicines management."It is about the provision of direct care to patients by pharmacists,using a systematic approach to practice where we seek to promote those actions which maximise the benefits of the medicine and eliminate problems in order to achieve optimal outcome,"he said.Unless pharmacists are all focused on that they will not achieve equality of care for patients,he argued.