Kwame Osei Owusu
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Keynote: J Med Chem
The dynamics surrounding the role of the pharmacist in the NHS has caused a lot of stares from other healthcare professionals and even other colleague pharmacists. Pharmacy is known to be one of the fastest growing professions whereby growth is seen at least every decade. The newly emerged change is the role of clinical pharmacists in the general surgery in the community that is causing a certain degree of confusion of what the future of the role of a pharmacist would be defined as. At the beginning of my Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree in 2016, pharmacists were hardly needed in the surgery as mostly they are easily located in the community at a pharmacy on a high street supermarket. However, the evolution of making the role of the pharmacist more clinical in the community as seen in the hospital has birthed the Primary Care Network (PCN) for these pharmacists to work synergistically with the General Practitioner (GP). It can be argued that pharmacists have been given a space in the surgery due to the high level of dropouts of GPs and the enormous nature of the workload in the community has forced this space to be mainstream in the United Kingdom. But this does not account for the salary received by such pharmacists as they are paid nowhere near that of the GP. This similarity has caused the question to be asked if the role of the pharmacist is slowly replacing that of the GP? Recent publications 1. https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/practice-personal-finance/ pharmacists-are-not-trying-to-replace-gps-say-sector-leaders/ 2. https://www.medacy.co.uk/2021/01/30/pcn-pharmacists/ 3. https://www.medscape.co.uk/viewarticle/primary-care-networksrole- clinical-pharmacist-2022a1000ype 4. https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/CD006904/Aim-for-allnew- pharmacists-to-prescribe-under-GPhC-approved-plans 5. https://www.chemistanddruggist.co.uk/CD135677/Pharmacyclosures- Net-loss-of-215-leads-to-lowest-number-of-pharmaciesin- England-since-2015
Kwame Osei Owusu is a young Ghanaian-born individual, who grew up in Edmonton, North London. He is a 2021 Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) graduate, multifaceted individual who is currently a band 5 hospital mental health trainee pharmacist in the NHS and an award-winning social activist who has been recognised by Black Impact Awards in 2021 and the Diana Awards 2022 for his works in mental health advocacy using his social media platform and online conferences. His works are affecting the community positively through sharing of my personal experience with depression and the measures I have been taking to maintain a positive mental health after his recovery. He has been newly appointed in 2023 as one of the youth advisory boards for the Changemakers Programme at the Diana Awards. His role would enable me to collaborate with UK Youth, Centre for Mental Health and the Diana Awards to create content for professionals who seek to incorporate young people in their work. His personal experience with mental health in 2015 has given me the confidence in raising awareness on this good cause. His passion for advocating on good mental health since 2017 also stems from the experience of a friend around me that he had supported in their phases of mental health crises. This has encouraged him to add his voice to different online seminars and conversations as well as using my social media platforms to educate my followers. His aim is to help remove the stigmatism associated with mental health disorders in the Black community through education.
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