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Why do you need, Bournes Pharmacist, Directory? The changes in the National Health Service during the last few years have created and environment in which the influence of the pharmacist on prescribing has increased significantly. In primary care all general practices, throughout the UK have drug budgets for the first time in the history of the NHS. These drug budgets are managed and monitored by pharmaceutical prescribing advisers in Health Authorities/Health Boards and Primary Care Organisations. Prescribing advisers also undertake the following key tasks which have impact on the pharmaceutical industry. In secondary care fixed drugs budgets, have been in existence for many years but now have increased emphasis due to to NHS changes in 1999 which decreed that hospitals and GPs would share the same local budget (local health economy). This means that treatment initiated in hospitals will have significant implications for the long term management of patients in primary care. The healthcare professional who is trained to understand drug selection, interactions and the financial outcomes of therapy is the hospital pharmacist. Hospital pharmacists perform the following key tasks which have profound effect on prescribing decision both inside and outside hospitals.

 

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