Community pharmacists are highly trained healthcare professionals, with a core expertise in medicines, and have for generations counter-prescribed medicines for common ailments.
However, there has been a view that community pharmacists’ skills, knowledge and clinical experience have been underutilised, even to the extent that universities have been accused of preparing students for jobs that do not yet exist.
Pharmacy has been, as the oft used cliché says, ‘at a crossroads’.
This is now changing, and over the past few years we have seen a new form of community pharmacy emerge from a chrysalis, dry its wings and take flight to provide new services to patients in primary care.
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