Hospital Pharmacy in Canada: Ahead of the Curve

1Some of the primary objectives of the PPMI for hospitals and health systems are to describe optimal pharmacy practice models that support the provision of safe, effective, efficient, and accountable medication-related care for patients; to enhance the capacity of pharmacy technicians; to identify core patient-care-related services that should be consistently provided by departments of pharmacy; to foster understanding of and support for optimal pharmacy practice models by patients and caregivers, health care professionals, health care executives, and payers; to identify existing and future technolo gies required to support optimal pharmacy practice models; and to identify specific actions that hospital pharmacists should take to implement optimal practice models. In November 2010, ASHP held an invitational conference, the Pharmacy Practice Model Summit, at which over 100 pharmacy leaders met to reach consensus on the types of pharmacy practice models that would best serve the needs of both patients and the hospitals and health systems that deliver care to those patients. The consensus recommendations from the summit are numerous, but the following are some of the more noteworthy 2