Judith Smith at APP
January 30, 2014
Presenting at the 2014 APP
conference will be Dr Judith Smith,
director of policy at the Nuffield
Trust in the United Kingdom,
and a co-author of “Now or
never: Shaping Pharmacy for the
Future” arguably “one of the most
important reports on pharmacy to
emerge in many years” said a Guild
spokesperson (PD 16 Jan).
The report, which was
commissioned by the Royal
Pharmaceutical Society, was
welcomed by the Guild as a
critically seminal piece reinforcing
the need for community pharmacy
to transform and innovate in
difficult times.
The Guild added that the report
summarised the same challenges
facing community pharmacy in
Australia, namely that the current
model of community pharmacy
needs to change, forced by the
tightening of the NHS belt, the
crowded market of pharmacies,
the increasing role of pharmacy
technicians and automated
dispensing systems as well as
online and e-prescribing - each
contributing pressures to pharmacy
profitability.
“A broader role for pharmacists
as caregivers will be central to
securing the future of community
pharmacy,” the report said.
Smith is an experienced and
widely published health services
researcher and policy analyst.
Before joining the Nuffield Trust
in Feb 2009, she spent 14 years
working at the Health Services
Management Centre, University of
Birmingham, where she was senior
lecturer, Director of Research and
Academic Director of the NHS
Management Training Scheme.
“Pharmacists increasingly provide
services that help people stay well
and use their medicines to best
effect,” she wrote.
“However, the pace of change
remains slow, and financial and
structural incentives are not
sufficiently aligned to support it.”
Smith will speak on the Friday
afternoon of APP - 14 Mar.
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