Future of community pharmacy: Numark Chairman shares their vision

As part of its commitment to enhancing business performance and ensuring safe, effective pharmaceutical care, Numark has developed 12 guiding principles to
help its members in adapting to evolving skill sets and shaping their future.

Numark’s future model for community pharmacy practice presents an ambitious vision for the sector, focusing on delivering a range of clinical services, enhancing
the health of local populations, and becoming an integrated part of primary care.

Harry McQuillan, Chairman of Numark, reveals that these principles were derived from changes in pharmacy education, such as the integration of prescribing into
undergraduate courses.

He views these principles as a formal recognition of the skills that pharmacists and pharmacy teams have developed over time, particularly in the area of
independent prescribing.

“These principles formalize those evolving capabilities of pharmacists, especially in independent prescribing,” McQuillan tells Pharmacy Business.