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Summary of Community Pharmacy

DEFINITION
A community pharmacy could be a building that in a very position is ready to supply pharmacy services to people in a local area. A community pharmacy dispenses medicine, typically involving a registered pharmacist with the education, skills and competence to deliver professional service to the community.
  • Community pharmacists are the health professionals most accessible to the general public.
  • They supply medicines in accordance with a prescription or, when legally permitted, sell them without a prescription.
  • In addition to making sure an accurate supply of appropriate products, their professional activities also cover.
  • Counseling of patients at the time of dispensing of prescription and non-prescription drugs,
  • Drug information to health professionals, patients and the overall public, and
  • Participation in health-promotion programmes.
  • They maintain links with other health professionals in primary health care.

SCOPE OF COMMUNITY PHARMACY
  1. Drug information and their actions.
  2. Drug utilization.
  3. Drug distribution.
  4. Drug selection (or) patient counselling

1. Drug information and their actions : Besides proper understanding of biological and physics community pharmacy also provides grasp on pharmacology, toxicology, route of administration stability and their information regarding drugs.

2. Drug utilization : Stock control reports on prescription and controlled drugs dispense, drug purchases, inspection and improvement in operations and such other aspects which demand attention.

3. Drug distribution : Quantities of medication are localised physically outside of the pharmacy to possess control for the interior distribution for patients.

4. Drug selection : Rational drug therapy Training of health care professionals. Maintainance based on clinical guidelines. Essential drug concept.

SCOPE OF COMMUNITY PHARMACY
  1. Steep rise within the field of medical and health services thanks to introduction of varied latest techniques and globalization of health profession.
  2. Population of whole world is rising tremendously day by day.
  3. Medical and health services are insufficient for overall improvement of health status
  4. There is a requirement of equal participation of all health professionals to get a standard goal of disease prevention and health promotion
  5. Community pharmacist strives for many effective, appropriate, safe and economic treatment of the patient.
  6. Nowadays the scope of community pharmacy is expanding to the subsequent areas:

Care of patients or Clinical pharmacy
The pharmacist seeks to collect and integrate information about the patient’s drug history, clarify the patient’s understanding of the intended dosage regimen and method of administration, and advises the patient drug-related precautions, and in some countries, monitors and evaluates the therapeutic response.