Community pharmacist Andrew Burr is a man on a mission:to "make medicines work for patients" by expanding the role of clinical pharmacy outside hospital.The logic is unassailable:as he points out,pharmacists see patients a lot more often than GPs do."A patient on repeat prescriptions will probably only have a six- or 12-month review with a GP," he said."But patients and carers come into the pharmacy every month for prescriptions,and that provides a real opportunity to intervene that the GP simply does not have." Pharmacists are experts on drugs,but have not played to that strength,he believes.
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