The Dean of Pharmacy defends the role of pharmacists in the Parliament of the Autonomous Community of Navarre
Adela López de Ceráin has presented a project of research on polymedicated patients at partnership with the COF of Navarra.
Adela López de Ceráin, dean of the School of Pharmacy of the University of Navarra, participated in the workshop "The patient, axis of the pharmacist's healthcare activity", held in the Parliament of Navarra, where she defended the role of the pharmacist in the healthcare system.
high school committee Also participating in the meeting were Alberto Catalán, President of the Parliament; Marta Vera, Regional Minister of Health; Pilar García, President of the Official Pharmacists' Association of Navarra; Albert Jovell, President of the Spanish Patients' Forum; Ana Aliaga, administrative assistant General of the General Association of Pharmacists; and Enrique Ordieres, President of Cinfa Laboratories.
The Dean of Pharmacy has been in charge of presenting a joint project of research with the high school Official Pharmacists of Navarra that aims to contribute "to a safer and more rational use of medication, taking advantage of the knowledge and the proximity of the community pharmacist with patients. In particular, with chronic and polymedicated patients, who are the ones who most frequently visit health centers and pharmacies".
This project aims to improve patients' healthcare Education by increasing their knowledge with respect to medicines and favoring partnership among healthcare professionals: "To achieve this, it will require both the work of the doctor when prescribing the drug and the pharmacist when dispensing it, all of this coinciding with the moment core topic of the implementation of the electronic prescription", adds Adela López de Ceráin.
In this sense, the specialist took advantage of her discussion paper in the Parliament to recall that improving the efficiency of the system "not only requires political action, but also the cooperation of everyone. And on this point the School is committed to training future professionals in technical aspects, but also as responsible people with a civic sense, who think of the common good and contribute to improving people's health".