Meeting room: Galenos
Rapporteur: Aylin Acar Sancar, Pharmacist, Marmara University Faculty of Pharmacy, Turkey
Target audience: Pharmacy education and academic pharmacy, Social and Administrative Pharmacy, Policy and regulation
There is no health care without a pharmacy workforce. As medicines experts, the pharmacy workforce plays a key role in improving health outcomes through responsible use of medicines and optimising effective choice and use. The continued development of pharmacy services and the pharmaceutical sciences relies on a well-educated, competent, sufficient and well distributed pharmaceutical workforce. Transforming the global pharmaceutical workforce requires a global vision with clear and consensus-based objectives consistent with global health strategies. The session will share FIP workforce development tools and frameworks for countries, showcase the results of the FIP Workforce Transformation Programme, and share country experiences from the region.
11.00 – 11.05 Introduction by chairs
11.05 – 11.25 Workforce development & transformation: FIP’s solutions for transformation the pharmacy workforce
Ian Bates, FIP Workforce Development Hub Director, United Kingdom
11:25 – 11:40 From primary health care to workforce development: The case of diabetes care in Switzerland
Astrid Czock, CEO, QualiCCare, Switzerland
11:40 – 11:55 Country spotlight: Lessons from Iceland on pharmacy workforce development
Lóa María Magnúsdóttir, CEO, Pharmaceutical Society of Iceland, Iceland
11.55 – 12.10 The unmet need: Pharmaceutical workforce planning for Turkey
Bulent Kiran, Faculty Member, Ege University Faculty of Pharmacy, Turkey
12.10 – 12.30 Moderated discussion with speakers and audience
12.30 – 14.00 Networking lunch
Learning objectives:
At the end of this session, participants will be able to: