The pharmacist provides pharmaceutical care through various channels and services, including distributing medication, dispensing medicine information for patient counseling, and drug monitoring to prevent drug-related illnesses.[1-6] Distributive pharmacists and clinical pharmacists provide those essential performances and activities. Besides, the pharmacy technician supports the pharmacy teams.[5,7] Pharmaceutical care services expanded nationally and internationally.[8-22] The pharmacy strategic plan was established several years back and eventually updated and evaluated thoroughly.[23,35] Various pharmacy programs were founded, for instance, drug information services, total parenteral nutrition, medication safety, intravenous medicine preparation, and administration. Most of those services were inpatient services.[25-29] However, the pharmaceutical care services vision changed by Saudi Vision 2030 towards unique and advanced inpatient services, ambulatory care, and community services.[30,31] Additional new services, such as Saudi managed care services (Wasfaty), pharmacy research services, and pharmacy infection control, were planned before and recently founded[32-35] However, various ambulatory care pharmacy programs will be implemented soon.[23,24] One of the critical new facilities required in pharmaceutical care is financial and accounting services. Read more...
