PHARMACISTS can now access two new resources to support patients with chronic respiratory diseases from the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).
Launched in The Hague earlier this week, Chronic respiratory diseases - A handbook for pharmacists, and Knowledge and skills reference guide for professional development in chronic respiratory diseases, aim to support pharmacists to provide services to patients with conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
FIP Lead for Practice Development and Transformation, Goncalo Sousa Pinto, said the resources define the knowledge and skills that pharmacists need to acquire to provide services for chronic respiratory conditions.
"Chronic respiratory diseases impose significant health and economic burdens on individuals, healthcare systems and society overall," he said.
"As healthcare delivery undergoes a paradigm shift towards a people-centred care approach to optimising therapy and health outcomes, pharmacists are well-positioned to play a unique and complementary role in an interprofessional, collaborative care model to manage chronic respiratory diseases."
Writing in the foreward to the FIP's handbook, International Primary Care Respiratory Group, CEO Sian Williams and the organisation's President, Professor Ee Ming Khoo, noted that pharmacists play a key role in chronic respiratory disease management.
"We urge pharmacists to consider how they can improve their community's respiratory health, and enhance their engagement, so that we can all live in a world where everyone is breathing and feeling well through universal access to the right care," they said.
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