Meet the ‘Pharmacy: Delivering a Healthier Wales’ working groups
Each theme of our ‘Pharmacy: Delivering a Healthier Wales’ vision has a working group, which comprise a chair and members of the pharmacy profession who work across different sectors and geographical locations across Wales.
Members include pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, foundation pharmacists, undergraduate pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacy technicians. There is also patient representation on the Enhancing Patient Experience Working Group to ensure that patients can help shape the future of the profession.
Meet the members of the pharmacy profession who ensure progress towards the 2025 goals is being achieved.
1. Enhancing Patient Experience
Patients do not experience avoidable harm from medicines. Patients are supported by pharmacy teams to keep well, focusing on self-care, prevention, and early detection of illness. All patient facing pharmacists are actively prescribing wherever the patient needs them.
2. Developing the Pharmacy Workforce
The pharmacy workforce has the skills necessary to lead innovation in medical therapies. Education and training is embedded within multi-sectoral training sites and with multidisciplinary input. Every member of the pharmacy team has access to training to maximise their contribution to patient care.he pharmacy team. Supply of medicines is streamlined, and artificial Intelligence and personalised medicines are championed by pharmacy teams.
3. Seamless Pharmaceutical Care
Pharmacy teams lead the management of medicines as the experts in therapeutics, medicines usage and optimisation. Pharmacy is a core part of the patient’s multidisciplinary team and are considered in all new care pathways.
4. Harnessing Innovation, Data and Technology
Patient’s central electronic medical records are accessed and updated by practitioners involved in their care, including the pharmacy team. Supply of medicines is streamlined, and artificial Intelligence and personalised medicines are championed by pharmacy teams