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Community pharmacy faces ongoing challenges to its economic and social standing. A concern to legitimate professional status explains the attraction of public health. Interventions currently advocated by UK State‐sponsored health care seek to reconcile the autonomous ‘entrepreneurial’ patient with market‐driven solutions. Engaging critically with recent Foucauldian sociological work on pharmacy as...
Introduction and Aims
This paper reports on an exploratory ethnographic observation study which aimed to understand how alcohol fits into routine service provision in the New Medicine Service (NMS), Medication Use Reviews (MUR) and pharmacists’ everyday practices in UK community pharmacies.
Design and Methods
Observations were undertaken in five community pharmacies featuring nine community pharmacists...
Background and AimsTo undertake the first randomized controlled trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a brief intervention delivered by community pharmacists to reduce hazardous or harmful drinking.
DesignThis parallel group randomized trial allocated participants individually to brief alcohol intervention (n = 205) or a leaflet‐only control condition (n = 202), with follow‐up study after 3 months...
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