In Italy the focus is on opening up closed professions like pharmacists and taxi drivers.
The document discusses handing some powers on issue over-the-counter medicines back to the pharmacists.
Ever since then it has meant I am on intimate terms with a string of pharmacists.
The errors were picked up as part of routine daily checks by hospital pharmacists.
One in four said they would like pharmacists to provide more information on complementary medicines.
Now, pharmacies are pushing in states to allow their pharmacists to administer even more vaccines.
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Much of the growth can be attributed to the ability of pharmacists to administer flu shots.
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Until relatively recently, lawyers, architects and pharmacists learned their trade through apprenticeship, not through higher education.
The key reason doctors, nurses and pharmacists are able to persuade is their trust and credibility.
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Doctors will have discretion over what medicines they allow nurses and pharmacists to prescribe.
Legislation to open up closed-shop professions, among them truckers, taxi-drivers, pharmacists and lawyers, needs fine-tuning.
The order makes vaccinations more accessible and allows pharmacists to administer vaccines to children.
They can pitch them to doctors and pharmacists only in medical journals and other professional publications.
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Usually, pharmacists are not included in the wide net that companies use to recruit patients into trials.
According to some studies, three quarters of Latinos get their information about drugs from pharmacists, not doctors.
Phillips said more health care is happening outside hospitals, putting more of a burden on outpatient pharmacists.
So he has gone to battle with those closed professions like taxi drivers and pharmacists and lawyers.
The Barcelona Pharmacists' Association, Collegi de Farmaceutics, which proposed the project, says the use of chemists is key.
It would also mandate that doctors and pharmacists report new prescriptions every time they are written and filled.
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Others, such as shopkeepers, taxi drivers, lawyers or pharmacists, are insulated from competition by a web of regulations.
It also inflamed pharmacists who feared the deal would affect their ability to compete with the larger company.
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Despite its availability for years, some doctors are unwilling to prescribe it and some pharmacists won't sell it.
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Cerner sells software and systems that organize and deliver patient information to doctors, nurses, pharmacists and lab techs.
They also called for pharmacists to be given a more formal role in monitoring the drugs prescribed to patients.
And in some cases pharmacists automatically assumed the patient had been given information about their medicine by the GP.
And where there was a record, the entries were more likely to be made by pharmacists, rather than doctors.
If states would loosen licensing laws, pharmacists could be unleashed to do more.
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Creighton started its online degree program in 2001 when there was a severe shortage of pharmacists throughout the country.
Only qualified pharmacists can own a pharmacy, and they are limited to four.
To help revive growth Mr Monti wants to liberalise closed professions such as pharmacists and notaries, and to simplify bureaucracy.
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