Rapid realist review of the role of community pharmacy in the public health response to COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Community pharmacists and their teams have remained accessible to the public providing essential services despite immense pressures during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have successfully expanded the influenza vaccination programme and are now supporting the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out.

Aim

This rapid realist review aims to understand how community pharmacy can most effectively deliver essential and advanced services, with a focus on vaccination, during the pandemic and in the future.

Method

An embryonic programme theory was generated using four diverse and complementary documents along with the expertise of the project team. Academic databases, preprint services and grey literature were searched and screened for documents meeting our incl

SUBMITTER: Maidment I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8210681 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature