TY - JOUR
T1 - Perspectives of community pharmacy staff on commonly encountered skin conditions and the key challenges towards enhancing their role in dermatology
AU - Shariff, Zakia
AU - Harvey, Jane
AU - Leighton, Paul
AU - Boyd, Matthew
AU - Ridd, Matthew
AU - Santer, Miriam
AU - Tucker, Rod
AU - Maidment, Ian
N1 - Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Skin Health and Disease published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Association of Dermatologists. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/], which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
PY - 2024/4
Y1 - 2024/4
N2 - This research letter discusses the perspectives of community pharmacy staff on commonly encountered skin conditions and the key challenges towards enhancing their role in this area. A mixed methods online survey was created, and a total of 174 community pharmacy staff completed the survey. The results highlight the range of conditions currently encountered in community pharmacy and the breadth of challenges facing community pharmacy staff, in particular challenges surrounding providing a differential diagnosis. Community pharmacies are an integral part of the NHS and have a key role in managing skin conditions; however, in order to optimise this role, the perspectives of staff discussed in this letter need to be further explored and addressed.
AB - This research letter discusses the perspectives of community pharmacy staff on commonly encountered skin conditions and the key challenges towards enhancing their role in this area. A mixed methods online survey was created, and a total of 174 community pharmacy staff completed the survey. The results highlight the range of conditions currently encountered in community pharmacy and the breadth of challenges facing community pharmacy staff, in particular challenges surrounding providing a differential diagnosis. Community pharmacies are an integral part of the NHS and have a key role in managing skin conditions; however, in order to optimise this role, the perspectives of staff discussed in this letter need to be further explored and addressed.
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ski2.369
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85187412963&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1002/ski2.369
DO - 10.1002/ski2.369
M3 - Article
C2 - 38577045
VL - 4
JO - Skin Health and Disease
JF - Skin Health and Disease
IS - 2
M1 - e369
ER -