A qualitative exploration of how pharmacy professionals in primary care utilise planned protected development time.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With patients developing more complex healthcare and medicine needs, it is imperative pharmacy professionals enhance their knowledge and skills to enable an advanced level of pharmaceutical practice, improving service provision and supporting patient care. The UK Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) is urging employers to incorporate protected time within the working week to facilitate this development. Currently protected development time (PDT) is not well established within the pharmacy profession and there is little qualitative data available about the utility of this.

Objective

To explore how pharmacy professionals in primary care currently utilise planned protected 'development time' and their perception of this.

Methods

One-to-one semi-structured interv

SUBMITTER: Cairns F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10869295 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature