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The move from medicines management to medicines optimisation (MO) is underway but there is still some distance to go before it becomes the framework by which pharmacy delivers patient focused outcomes, NHS England has stated.

Bruce Warner, acting deputy chief pharmaceutical officer, said that aligned patient-centred priorities and contracts were important steps that had been made in the move towards widespread MO, but added that more needed to be done to enable pharmacists to access shared care records.

Dr Warner described other relevant work that is currently in progress including an updated version of the MO dashboard, NICE guidance and rebalancing work that €will facilitate a systematic approach to quality in pharmacy and responsible development of practice and innovation, whilst reducing the burden of unnecessary and inflexible regulations€.

€We want to be in a place where pharmacy is perceived as a truly clinical profession operating within a genuinely integrated system that is entirely patient focused,€ Dr Warner told last month's Pharmacy Management National Forum. €We want pharmacy to step up to the plate and deliver its full potential.€

Dr Warner also expressed support for a 'two pharmacists per pharmacy' practice model to allow extra capacity for service provision and to change community pharmacy's €flat€ career structure.