Pharmacists should be a much more integral part of a clearly defined process of prescribing, dispensing and supporting medicines taking, to ensure that the risks of harm to patients from medicines are reduced. Paul Gimson, the Society's director for Wales, discusses some of the issues raised at a recent symposium Our key role as pharmacists is to provide pharmaceutical care for patients, and we must never lose sight of that. The issues of harm caused by medicines are well known, yet we lack a clear strategy to deal with it. We often talk more about the errors caused in dispensing rather than focusing on the wider issue of harm caused by poor prescribing, patient adherence and medicmes administralion. Pharmacists have a major role in creating the right environment for safe practice to take place.
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