New report shows how the pharmacy profession is advancing in different countries with the help of FIP resources
Buenos Aires, 30 August 2016 — Universities, professional organisations and authorities around the world have been enabled to take steps towards ensuring that pharmacists are capable and competent thanks to resources produced by FIP Education (FIPEd), the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) has found.
A new report, “Transforming our workforce”, released today by FIP at the 76th World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Buenos Aires, Argentina, offers a collection of 14 achievements ranging from the credentialing of advanced pharmacy practice in Australia and the set-up of a new pharmacy curriculum in Chile to the adoption of a competency framework in Croatia and the development of a model to evaluate health care professionals in Jordan. All six World Health Organization regions are represented through these pharmacy workforce development success stories.
“This report is the most comprehensive collection of evidence so far of the value of FIP’s actions in the area of education and workforce. Since FIP started to focus on workforce and education in 2008, we have developed 23 resources and 10 strategic tools which are freely available to colleagues around the world,” said Professor Ian Bates, FIPEd development team director and editor of the report.
FIP’s Global Competency Framework, for instance, was an important reference for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society in developing support tools for the UK, and FIP’s framework for quality assurance of pharmacy education has inspired the creation of a national taskforce to ensure quality education in India. Both are examples of FIPEd resources being used in steps to transform the pharmacy workforce.
Professor Bates added: “This new report is in itself a resource. We see it as a document that describes evidence-based and tested mechanisms, enabling policymakers and leadership bodies to advance the education of the pharmacy workforce.”
The report also gives an overview of FIPEd resources. “Transforming our workforce” is the latest addition to a body of work by FIP that feeds into the global agenda of universal health care delivery and promotes the value and potential of pharmacists within this agenda.
Notes for editors
Full report: “Transforming our workforce” and all the FIP Education resources described in the report are available at http://fip.org/educationreports. The success stories come from 14 countries: Australia, Chile, Croatia, India, Jordan, Malawi, New Zealand, Kenya/USA, Serbia, Spain and Spain/Angola, Thailand and the UK.
About FIP: The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) is the global federation of national associations of pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists, and is in official relations with the World Health Organization. Through its 137 member organisations, it represents over three million practitioners and scientists around the world. www.fip.org
About FIPEd: FIP Education brings together all FIP’s education actions. Its purpose is to ensure that education and training provides the foundation for developing pharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical services and the profession in order to meet societal needs for medicines expertise.
About the World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences: FIP’s 76th annual World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences is being held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 28 August to 1 September 2016 with the theme “Reducing the global burden of disease”.
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