'It stayed there, front and centre': perspectives on community pharmacy's contribution to front-line healthcare services during the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Ireland.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To explore community pharmacists and key stakeholders' perspectives and reflections on the community pharmacy workforce's preparedness for, and response to, COVID-19, including lessons for future public health crises.

Design, setting and participants

Qualitative study using semistructured interviews (via telephone or online videoconferencing platform), with community pharmacists and a range of key stakeholders (representing other health professions, professional/governing organisations concerned with community pharmacy and patient advocacy groups) from across Northern Ireland. Data were analysed using thematic analysis and constant comparison.

Results

Thirty interviews were conducted with community pharmacists (n=15) and key stakeholders (n=15). Four themes

SUBMITTER: Patterson SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9511011 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature