Meeting room: Avicenna
Rapporteur: Rida Himmet, Vice Secretary General, Turkish Pharmacist’ Association, Turkey
The first and second day of the conference will demonstrate the needs, barriers and opportunities for pharmacists in the primary health care setting. This session will explore how pharmaceutical policies should enable the next leap forward for pharmacists in providing primary health care services and what investment these policies imply for realising the vision for the future of the profession
09:00 – 09:10 Introduction by chairs
09:10 – 09:30 The role of pharmacists in interprofessional teams in primary health care
Kemal Buharalioglu, Professor, Katip Celebi University, Faculty of Pharmacy, Turkey
09:30 – 09:50 Overview of the legal and regulatory framework for community pharmacies in the WHO European Region
Tifenn Humbert, Technical Officer, Health Technologies and Pharmaceuticals
Division of Health Systems and Public Health, WHO Regional Office for Europe, Denmark
09:50 – 10:10 Designing effective primary health care systems in Europe
Frederico Guanais, Deputy Head of the Health Division , ELS/Health Division, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), France
10:10 – 11:00 Panel discussion with questions from the audience