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Pip's role also provides a human face for pharmacy as he checks with patients
that they know why they have been given certain drugs and things they
can do to avoid any side-effects.
Each visit to these sites is different and the pharmacist has to be flexible in approach and have an ability to get up to speed quickly. Although the patients come first there is always juggling to be done between saving money and patient welfare, this balance seems particularly evident in the provision of clinical pharmacy at these outliers which are constantly threatened with closure as their buildings approach the end of their working life.