Research And Reports
Final Report of Moving Forward: Pharmacy Human Resources for the Future
The Management Committee of the Moving Forward: Pharmacy Human Resources for the Future study has released its final report of recommendations and strategies to help ensure a strong pharmacy workforce prepared to meet the future health care needs of Canadians.
The Final Report contains 36 recommendations, grouped into five separate themes arising from specific human resources challenges, including:
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Communicating the value that the pharmacy workforce brings to Canadian health care;
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Managing the pharmacy workforce;
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Educating and training the pharmacy workforce;
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Regulating the pharmacy workforce; and
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Improving the integration off international pharmacy graduates into the pharmacy workforce.
Readers can download the full report by clicking on the icon below.
Innovative Pharmacy Practices
Moving Forward is pleased to release its two-part report documenting Innovative Pharmacy Practices in Canada.
The objective of the Innovative Pharmacy Practices study was to identify and describe the range of innovative models of pharmacy practice emerging in the Canadian health system and in other comparable jurisdictions. This report includes analyses of new trends in practices, the effectiveness of some of these innovations, as well as an overview of the mechanisms and processes that support these new practices and models. In particular, this study focused on innovative and expanded pharmacist roles in direct patient care, specifically, in settings where pharmacists provide care and expertise directly to patients or members of the public.
Volume I contains the overview and analysis of the documented cases, while Volume II contains over 60 detailed profiles of innovative practices across Canada. (Readers can download both reports in a single PDF document, below.)
Pharmacy Human Resources Challenges and Priorities
The Pharmacy Human Resources Challenges and Priorities research stream was undertaken to engage a broad range of stakeholders to determine the human resource implications of Moving Forward’s vision of “how pharmacy will be practiced” in the future.
Based on this vision, stakeholders (including students, deans, owners and managers of pharmacies, and pharmacists from across Canada) provided key perspectives on the education, workload, recruitment and retention, training and career development of the pharmacy workforce both now and in the future.
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Integrated Key Findings from the Moving Forward: Pharmacy Human Resources for the Future Research Program
Moving Forward has completed a multi-pronged research program to understand pharmacy human resources challenges facing the Canadian health care system. Integrated Key Findings from the Moving Forward Research Program: Synthesis Report is a concise and integrated summary of the key findings, observations and conclusions arising from all Moving Forward’s individual research studies. It provides a foundation of evidence for the development of Moving Forward’s final recommendations for pharmacy human resources planning.
Three primary research streams are summarized in this Synthesis Report:
Each of the individual research reports summarized in this Synthesis can be downloaded in full at www.pharmacyhr.ca/ResearchAndReports. Readers can download the full Synthesis Report by clicking on the icon below.
Pharmacy Human Resources Challenges and Priorities: Perspectives of Pharmacy Students
Moving Forward in partnership with CAPSI (Canadian Association of Students and Interns) is pleased to release Pharmacy Human Resources Challenges and Priorities: Perspectives of Pharmacy Students.
This report represents the insights and expectations of close to 1300 of Canada’s current pharmacy student body, and is one component of Moving Forward’s broader Pharmacy HR Challenges and Priorities research stream. Moving Forward and CAPSI would like acknowledge the work of our researchers Ascentum Inc., Dr. Neil MacKinnon and Dr. Derek Jorgenson; CAPSI executive members Omolayo Famuyide (CAPSI President) and Jonathan Mailman (CAPSI President-Elect and Moving Forward National Advisory Committee member); and the Deans of the Faculties of Pharmacy across Canada. Each of these organizations and individuals were instrumental in the success of this research.
Readers can download the complete report by clicking on the icon below.
Integration of International Pharmacy Graduates into Canadian Pharmacy Practice
Moving Forward is pleased to present the final report of its findings regarding the barriers and challenges surrounding the Integration of International Pharmacy Graduates into Canadian Pharmacy Practice: Barriers and Facilitators. Readers may choose to view the Executive Summary, or download the complete report by clicking the icon below.
This report is the result of a number of different research activities, and Moving Forward would like to express its appreciation to all the individuals and organizations who contributed to it success. We would like to thank the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada, the Ontario College of Pharmacists, the members of the IPG Working Group, as well as the numerous stakeholders who participated in our surveys, focus groups and interviews.
These findings presented in this report will help Moving Forward develop specific and realistic recommendations regarding the improved integration of IPGs into the pharmacy workforce, and furthers our efforts of ensuring a strong pharmacy workforce prepared to meet the future health care needs of Canadians.
National Dialogue on Pharmacy Technicians - Summary of Outcomes
The Moving Forward project is pleased to release the Summary of Outcomes report from the National Dialogue on Pharmacy Technicians that was held in November 2007. This report documents the meeting of pharmacy stakeholders from across the country who identified key priorities to support the evolving role of the pharmacy technician in Canada.
The Pharmacy Technician Workforce in Canada: Roles, Demographics and Attitudes
The Pharmacy Technician Workforce in Canada: Roles, Demographics and Attitudes is a descriptive report from the first ever national demographic and attitudinal survey of pharmacy technicians in Canada. The findings from this important study include insights on the size and structure of the pharmacy technician workforce in Canada, and what pharmacists and pharmacy technicians think about the role, responsibilities, and credentialing of pharmacy technicians.
The study includes responses from 2,087 practicing pharmacy technicians and assistants and 973 pharmacists who are managers or owners of their own pharmacies. Together, the surveys of pharmacy technicians and of pharmacists generated considerable amounts of data and many important perceptions.
Moving Forward is pleased to release The Pharmacy Technician Workforce in Canada: Roles, Demographics and Attitudes to the public. The final report is a combination of the findings of our survey of technicians and assistants (Part I), as well as our survey of pharmacists (Part II). Readers can download the full final report below; or separately download the Executive Summary of Part I, or the Executive Summary of Part II.
The findings generated by this research will add to and support the work of the many organizations that are currently exploring and implementing the processes of expanding the role of pharmacy technicians. Moving Forward would like to acknowledge the support and assistance provided by such groups as the Ontario College of Pharmacists, the College of Pharmacists of British Columbia, the Canadian Association of Pharmacy Technicians and its chapters, the Canadian Council for Accreditation of Pharmacy Programs and the Pharmacy Examining Board of Canada in the development of these findings.
An Environmental Scan of Pharmacy Technicians
One of the most critical challenges facing the pharmacy workforce today is to determine how a profession already pressured to do too much can take on an expanded role. Advancing the role of the pharmacy technician is one obvious strategy for supporting the expanding role of pharmacists. However, this requires a thorough understanding of the nature and structure of the pharmacy technician workforce in Canada.
To provide some of the necessary intelligence on this workforce population, Moving Forward has completed a comprehensive Environmental Scan of Pharmacy Technicians. Prepared by Jim Blackburn, of Blackburn & Associates, this report provides a timely and accurate summary of knowledge, issues and activities relating to the roles and responsibilities, curriculum and accreditation, and certification of pharmacy technicians, from a provincial/territorial, national and international perspective.
2004 Update: Situational Analysis of Human Resource Issues in the Pharmacy Profession in Canada (Executive Summary)
The report that started it all! A snapshot of issues in 2004 that highlighted the need for further study and was a determining factor in the initiation of Moving Forward: Pharmacy Human Resources for the Future.
This project is funded by the Government of Canada's Foreign Credential Recognition Program.