{"id":3726,"date":"2022-09-28T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/?p=3726"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:09:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:09:37","slug":"world-pharmacists-day-uk-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/world-pharmacists-day-uk-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"World Pharmacists Day: UK pharmacists join the celebration of modern pharmacy to create healthier futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>27 pharmacists from across the globe and the AmerisourceBergen family, a pharmaceutical distributor, have contributed to a digital book of celebration, which aims to highlight the changing role of pharmacists and how they can create healthier futures.<\/p>\n<p>Pharmacists are no longer just \u2018chemists\u2019 \u2013 some pharmacists are now able to diagnose, treat and prescribe for patients who traditionally may have needed to see a doctor or GP, and the government now plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/our-plan-for-patients\/our-plan-for-patients\">give more of a role to community pharmacy<\/a> to alleviate the pressure on GPs. Others are guardians of their local community \u2013 keeping an eye on vulnerable patients who may not have regular contact with other healthcare professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Raj Rohilla of Midhurst Pharmacy (West Sussex)\/Goys Pharmacy (Battersea)\/ Hamlins Pharmacy (Shepherds Bush) noted: \u201cWe need doors to open and mindsets to change so that all healthcare professionals can work collaboratively to improve the health and wellbeing of people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During the COVID-19 pandemic they stepped up to support stretched healthcare systems, with many taking a leading role in the world-wide response. This has evolved further with more and more pharmacists offering vaccination services for COVID-19, as well as flu, chicken pox and \u2018holiday\u2019 vaccinations.<\/p>\n<p>This changing role of pharmacists is helping the health and care workforce to unite to create healthier futures for their local communities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmacists from across the globe have shared their thoughts on the changing role of pharmacy as part of celebrations to mark International Federation of Pharmacists\u2019 (FIP) World Pharmacists Day 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":3729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3726"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3734,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3726\/revisions\/3734"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/integratedcarejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}