Evaluating shared care practice in pharmacy

Abstract

A poster presentation on evaluating shared care practice in pharmacy. Introduction: Patients are many times visited by multiple healthcare professionals. This results in inevitable fragments as their healthcare information is not recorded in a single record. Documenting patient healthcare information on an electronic health record will improve health care quality and efficiency as duplicated efforts and tests by the healthcare team are avoided, in turn reducing healthcare costs. Moreover, a detailed patient health history is available to the healthcare professional before making a decision on the patient’s health. Aims: ◦ To identify the current shared care practices at the hospital pharmacies of the general acute and rehabilitation hospitals in Malta, at community pharmacies through the Pharmacy of Your Choice Scheme (POYC), which is the system adopted in community pharmacies to dispense NHS chronic medications.