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Integrating pharmacy into the primary care team

EDITOR,--We agree with Steven Ford and Kevin Jones that the policy of integrating pharmacy into the primary care team has much to recommend it.¹ Genitourinary medicine clinics have pioneered the concept of "one stop care," with on site medical, nursing, laboratory, pharmacy, counselling, psychology, and social work facilities. With the ever increasing numbers of patients with HIV infection attending, these in house services have increased to include dietetic, dental, and ophthalmic care.

Integrated pharmacies have had a key role in the provision of services in genitourinary medicine clinics from the beginning. There is a satellite dispensary in many larger clinics, staffed by a full time pharmacist, who is responsible for all prescriptions. In other smaller units prepacked drugs are dispensed direct by medical or nursing staff from an in house pharmacy, although this system is not ideal.

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