Perceptions of patients to extending prescribing to nurses and pharmacists

Abstract

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Pharmacy clients' attitudes to expanded pharmacist prescribing and the role of agency theory on involved stakeholders

“…Expanded pharmacist prescribing was the focus of this literature review while question design was aided by a previous study that explored the attitudes of Australian pharmacists and a UK-based study on patients' perceptions of nurse and pharmacist prescribing. [1,7,17,23] Structured questions were used since they were suitable to administer by telephone interviewing due to time restrictions. [24] The questionnaire was then checked for face and content validity by a small pharmacist focus group.…”

“…assessed whether patients were confident with nurse and pharmacist prescribing. However, in this study participants were limited to patients' who attended ophthalmology clinics [17] …”

“…However, in this study participants were limited to patients' who attended ophthalmology clinics. [17] Patients have generally reported benefits from pharmacist supplementary prescribing in the UK. These include a better standard of care, easier to make appointments, satisfaction with PSPs and the drug information provided.…”