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We kept acute clinical pharmacy going while working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic

• While the COVID-19 pandemic is very much a natural disaster, the best means of protection for clinical pharmacy services has been remote working technology.
• Working as part of a clinical service at home is certainly a unique experience.
• Despite being unwell at the beginning of the pandemic, obtaining secure remote access meant pharmacists could go to work without the commute and allowed them to manage chronic health condition better.
• This is not an ideal way to provide a clinical service.
• Patients and their medical notes are not directly accessible.
• Communication can occasionally be time-consuming, and single-source medicines reconciliation isn’t preferred

Source: Pharmaceutical Journal

HQC’s top books for your quality improvement reading list

Top quality improvement reads and recommendations:

• The Human Factor: Revolutionizing the Way We Live with Technology
• The Improvement Guide: A Practical Approach to Enhancing Organizational Performance
• The Team Handbook, 3rd Edition
• If Disney Ran Your Hospital: 9 ½ Things You Would Do Differently
• Problem Solving 101: A Simple Book for Smart People
• It’s Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy
• Beautiful Evidence
• The Health Care Data Guide: Learning from Data for Improvement

Source: Health Quality Council

No data to support UK delay of vaccines’ second dose, says WHO

• There is no scientific evidence for a delay of more than six weeks in administering the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine against Covid, say experts from the World Health Organization.
• The UK is planning to postpone giving the second dose of both the Pfizer/BioNTech and the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccines by up to 12 weeks – twice the length of time for which there is data, according to the WHO.
• However, the WHO’s strategic advisory group of experts on immunisation said it understood why a country facing the sort of increases in cases, hospitalisations and deaths that were happening in the UK might decide to go beyond the evidence.

Source: The Guardian

Pharmacists must be part of COVID-19 vaccination programme

• Having responded to news on the approval for rollout on the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine in December, RPS President Sandra Gidley spoke on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, stressing that pharmacists are experienced vaccinators who can help to accelerate the delivery jabs to priority groups.
• Director of Pharmacy Robbie Turner championed the role of pharmacists on ITV News and in the Guardian, whilst English Pharmacy Board member Ash Soni appeared on Sky News advocating pharmacists involvement in vaccine delivery.

Source: Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Ten recommendations to improve pharmacy practice in low and middle-income countries (LMICs)

• Medicines are important health interventions and their appropriate use could improve health outcomes.
• Throughout the globe, pharmacists play a very important role to improve the use of medicines.
• Though high-income countries are debating on futuristic approaches, independent prescribing of pharmacists, clinical skills, and to expand pharmacy services; a large majority of low and middle-income countries still lag behind to strengthen pharmacy practice.
• This paper presents a key set of recommendations that can improve pharmacy practice in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Source: BMC

Opportunities to improve COVID-19 provider communication resources: A systematic review

• The COVID-19 pandemic created unique communication barriers and facilitators for provider-patient/family communication.
• Communication barriers in COVID-19 care include reduced communication channels due to personal protective equipment, family cannot be present, time, provider burnout, telemedicine, and reduced patient-centered care.
• COVID-19 communication resources are needed to address non-physician providers, communication with family, and strategies for telehealth interactions to promote family engagement.

Source: ScienceDirect

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