Integrating pharmacy technicians

摘要

I am pleased to hear of progress with the Association of Pharmacy Technicians UK (APTUK) and the views of Steve Acres and Tess Fern in this week's Pharmaceutical Journal (2014;293:180). The way forward has to be close working of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. This may be happening but it is not apparent from a search of The Pharmaceutical Journal. The word "technician" appears rarely and mostly under disciplinary reports rather than constructive joint developments. The Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists was cited as wanting pharmacy technicians to use patient group directions in 2013, and a study where pharmacy technicians improved practice was abstracted from another journal, but nothing with Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) origins.