What do GP’s and others really think of community pharmacy?

Authors Hindi AMK, Schafheutle EI and Jacobs S were involved in the publication of a qualitative study recently with the following title:

Community pharmacy integration within the primary care pathway for people with long-term conditions: a focus group study of patients’, pharmacists’ and GPs’ experiences and expectations.

Link to paper: here.

Link to Policy piece: here.

In this podcast, I ask one of the authors, Ali Hindi, a number of questions about what the study has told us about how community pharmacy is perceived. The conversation was very interesting and revolved around the following areas:

• Access to patient records.
• Community pharmacists possibly being their own worst enemy in terms of having the confidence to take on new roles.
• The pressure community pharmacies find themselves under to deliver the NHS contract.
• Insights into how GPs feel about community pharmacy.
• Why the choice to focus on long-term conditions.

Thanks to PhD student Ali Hindi for taking the time to have a chat.