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The Royal Pharmaceutical Society reports that the role of community pharmacists includes: assessing health conditions and making recommendations about medication, dispensing medications, offering advice and support, monitoring long-term conditions, conducting medication reviews and supporting supervised self-administration of methadone. The role involves working as part of team that may include other pharmacists, GPs, counter assistants and pharmacy technicians.

The APHF research in this area has two key facets:

  • Investigating pharmacist non-technical skills
  • Utilisation of non-technical skills when interacting with rude and aggressive patients.

Non-technical skills

Research paper describing interview and survey data that identifies the key non-technical skills used by pharmacists.
Paper

Aggressive patients

Research paper examining the impact of aggressive patients on community pharmacists, and the use of non-technical skills in response.
Paper

Methadone patients

Research paper examining the methods used by pharmacists to interact safely with aggressive methadone patients.
Paper
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  • Dr Amy Irwin

  • Dr Ceri Trevethan

  • Prof Rhona Flin

  • Dr Oliver Hamlet

  • Dr Gabi Lipan

  • Ilinca Ruxandra Tone

  • Anna Kaminska

  • Nejc Sedlar

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