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1. The changing nature of prescribing: pharmacists as prescribers and challenges to medical dominance

Author

Weiss, Marjorie C. and Sutton, Jane

Subjects
Pharmacists, Prescription writing, Health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

To authenticate to the full-text of this article, please visit this link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01142.x Byline: Marjorie C. Weiss (1), Jane Sutton (1) Keywords: prescribing; qualitative research; patient safety; pharmacists Abstract: Abstract This paper investigates the potential threat to medical dominance posed by the addition of pharmacists as prescribers in the UK. It explores the role of prescribing as an indicator of professional power, the legitimacy and status of new pharmacist prescribers and the forces influencing professional jurisdictional claims over the task of prescribing. It draws upon 23 interviews with pharmacist supplementary prescribers. Data suggest that the legitimacy of pharmacists as prescribers, as experienced in the workplace, has been aided by: (1) blurred definitions of prescribing; (2) the emphasis on new prescribers' competence urging pharmacist prescribers to limit their areas of clinical practice; and (3) a team approach to patient management. Competence, self-limitation on practice and the benefits of team working as part of the ideology of patient safety were thus an important influence on pharmacists' jurisdictional claim over prescribing. While pharmacists have successfully negotiated a role for themselves as prescribers, medicine has retained its high status, relative to other health professionals and with patients; it controls the knowledge base relevant for prescribing practice and has managed to develop an 'overseer' role over the process of prescribing. Prescribing, as an indicator of medicine's autonomy of control over their work and professional status, has changed. Yet the extent to which new prescribers have been able to threaten the professional dominance of medicine is debatable. Author Affiliation: (1)Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath Article note: Address for correspondence: Marjorie C. Weiss, Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, e-mail: m.weiss@bath.ac.uk

Published
2009

2. British community pharmacists' views of physician-assisted suicide (PAS)

Author

Hanlon, Timothy R G, Weiss, Marjorie C., and Rees, Judith

Subjects
Health, Philosophy and religion
Abstract

Objectives--To explore British community pharmacists' views on PAS, including professional responsibility, personal beliefs, changes in law and ethical guidance. Design--Postal questionnaire Setting--Great Britain Subjects--A random sample of 320 registered full-time community pharmacists Results--The survey yielded a response rate of 56%. The results showed that 70% of pharmacists agreed that it was a patient's right to choose to die, with 57% and 45% agreeing that it was the patient's right to involve his/her doctor in the process and to use prescription medicines, respectively. Forty-nine per cent said that they would knowingly dispense a prescription for use in PAS were it to be legalised and 54% believed it correct to refuse to dispense such a prescription. Although 53% believed it to be their right to know when they were being involved in PAS, 28% did not. Most pharmacists (90%) said that they would wish to see the inclusion of a practice protocol for PAS in the code of ethics of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (CE-RPSGB) in the event of a change in the law on PAS. In addition, 89% would wish to see PAS included in the Conscience Clause of the CE-RPSGB. Males were found to be significantly less likely to favour PAS than females (p [is less than] 0.05), as were those declaring an ethnic/religious background of consideration when dealing with ethical issues in practice compared with their counterparts (p [is less than] 0.00005). Conclusion--Pharmacists view their professional responsibility in PAS to be more obligatory than a physician's, in having to provide the means for PAS. It is worrying that a proportion of the respondents prefer to remain in ignorance of the true purpose of a prescription for PAS; a finding at odds with current developments within the pharmaceutical profession. A practice protocol for PAS and an extension of the conscience clause should be considered in the event of PAS becoming legal. Such measures would allow the efficient provision of the pharmaceutical service whilst at the same respecting the personal beliefs of those who object to cooperating in the ending of a life. (Journal of Medical Ethics 2000;26:363-369) Keywords: Professional ethics; pharmacy ethics; community pharmacy; bioethics; physician-assisted suicide; euthanasia, Introduction On 10th December 1997 the Houses of Parliament could have become one of the few legislative bodies in the world to have legalised physician-assisted suicide (PAS), third only to [...]

Published
2000

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