Abstract
ABSTRACTBackgroundThe Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia's (SHPA) Standards of practice for clinical pharmacy list 10 activities pharmacists undertake to provide a comprehensive clinical service to inpatients and the staffing level needed to deliver this service (based on bed type). Time motion data from a recent Australian study could be used to elucidate the number of beds for which a pharmacist can provide clinical services (based on time taken for individual clinical activities).AimTo calculate the number of patients/inpatient beds for which a pharmacist can provide clinical services.MethodA profile of clinical pharmacy activities and how often they need to be delivered to meet the SHPA Standards was developed for different patient types. Formulae were developed and populated with the time motion data to calculate clinical pharmacist staffing levels.ResultsStaffing levels for 7 categories of patients/inpatient beds were elucidated. These calculations suggest the clinical pharmacist to bed type ratios described in the SHPA Standards considerably underestimate the time required to deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service.ConclusionTimes per activity used in this exercise are conservative and provide the maximum number of patients for which a pharmacist can provide clinical services. These staffing levels could be used to allocate resources to achieve agreed clinical pharmacy service delivery in Australian hospitals.
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