RPS Conference 2010, Abstracts 2010 - Royal Pharmaceutical Society

agree' that prescribing increased continuity of care for patients compared to 74.3% [26/35] of
those who had never prescribed (P = 0.02).
Conclusions Findings to date have been positive in terms of patient and pharmacist outcomes.
There were perceived benefits in terms of patient care; this has been reported elsewhere 2, 3 .
Prescribing pharmacists indicated that prescribing elevated their status within the healthcare
team and increased the job satisfaction and independence of the prescribing pharmacist as has
also been noted 2,3 . These results will inform further phases of this research that will focus on
current prescribers, doctors, patients and key stakeholders.
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