Expanding the services offered by pharmacies can have positive effects on health outcomes — and profits.
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Current guidance is not leading to cost-effective practice.
It depends where you live whether pharmacies can offer services like emergency contraception and health checks.
Pharmacists are trained to do far more than dispensing medicine, but outdated policies keep them from taking on a greater role in patient care.
Women using the contraceptive pill currently require a prescription from a doctor and to return once a year to renew it. But recent research suggests the relative safety of this oral contraceptive means…
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Chair, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University
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Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Professor of Pharmacy and Medicine, University of Florida
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Professor of Clinical & Professional Practice, University of Kent
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Junior research group leader, Social epidemiology, University of Bielefeld
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Consultant Senior Lecturer in Primary Health Care, University of Bristol
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Department of Management & Marketing, Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan
