Cancer patients could be empowered by health coaching

摘要

Patients taking oral anticancer medicines could benefit from receiving health coaching by a pharmacist, empowering them to take more responsibility for their treatment and health, according to a leading cancer pharmacist. Nicola Stoner, cancer consultant pharmacist at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, was at the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) annual conference 2014 to share her thoughts on how pharmacists can have effective conversations with cancer patients to optimise medicines use.