Abstract
The community pharmacy has a number of attributes that makes it an excellent setting for research and development projects, as it is a highly accessible part of the healthcare system and is staffed by highly trained health care professionals. The big turnover in patients in the community pharmacy makes it possible to reach a great number of patients and collect a lot of data in a relatively short time. However, conducting nation-wide research and development projects can be a rather time-consuming process for the individual community pharmacy, and can thus require collaboration with other community pharmacies and researchers. This will help ensure strong results and better implementation. Thus, the Danish Network for Community Pharmacy Practice for Research and Development (NUAP) was established in Denmark by a number of highly committed community pharmacies and researchers. NUAP consists of 102 member pharmacy owners in addition to a number of researchers. The aim of the network is to strengthen pharmacy practice and pharmacy practice research in Denmark by providing a forum where community pharmacy practitioners and researchers meet and work together. The network is led by a steering committee elected by the members in the network.
Highlights
For the last couple of decades, pharmacy practice has moved from being primarily product-focused to being much more patient-focused [1]
What Does the Future Hold for the Network? The network aims to be the foundation of a strong and national pharmacy practice research environment in Denmark
This can, hopefully, inspire future pharmacy technicians and pharmacists to stay in the community pharmacy sector and to pursue further involvement with the development of the community pharmacy as a platform for delivery of healthcare to the population [7]
Summary
For the last couple of decades, pharmacy practice has moved from being primarily product-focused to being much more patient-focused [1]. Pharmacy practice research has become an increasingly accepted research field, which has been instrumental in generating evidence for the development of pharmacy health services [2,3,4,5,6,7]. The use of practice-based research networks to collect data and implementation of research results is common, and has been reported in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and Canada [8,9,10,11]. The big turnover in customers in the community pharmacy setting [13] makes it possible to collect a large amount of data in a short time [14], and provides a healthcare setting where people in different states of health and illness come to pick up medication and seek medication-related counselling
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