REEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCE Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community edicine., (s):- http://dx.doi.org/./jppcm..s. Primary Care Center Pharmacist s Workforce in Eleven-Year - at inistry of Health in audi Arabia e-in: - Yousef Ahmed Alomi *, aeed Jamaan Alghamdi, Radi Abdullah Alattyh The Past Head, National Clinical pharmacy, and pharmacy practice and Pharmacy R and D Administration, inistry of Health,, KA. General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, inistry of Health, P.O.BOX,,, KA. Received: December ; Accepted: ebruary *Correspondence to: Dr. Yousef Ahmed Alomi, The Past General anager of General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care, The Past Head, National Clinical pharmacy, and pharmacy practice, Head, Pharmacy R and D Administration, inistry of Health, P.O.BOX,,, audi Arabia.. Email: yalomi@gmail.com Copyright: the author(s),publisher and licensee Indian Academy of Pharmacists. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Objective: The workforce of the pharmacist is one the elements of pharmacy strategic plan in audi Arabia. The aim of this study is to explore primary care centers pharmacist workforce in eleven years (-) at inistry of Health in audi Arabia. ethods: It is a retrospective analysis of eleven years (-) of OH primary healthcare center (PCC) pharmacist workforce. All data were derived from inistry of Health tatistical Year Books. It included a pharmacist or clinical pharmacist s workforces at OH primary healthcare centers. All calculations were based on OH workforce standards of PCC. All calculations were done using icrosoft Excel version ten. The calculations were per each region for a total twenty-one regions; the primary health care center s distribution numbers, the pharmacist distribution numbers, the ratio of pharmacist per primary healthcare center, the gender distribution of Pharmacist per region, the gender distribution of audi Pharmacist per each region across audi Arabia. Result: The total numbers of hospitals were hospitals,, primary care centers, and administration regions. The total numbers of pharmacist were, distributed at hospital, (. %), at primary care centers (. %) while administration regions (. %). The average numbers of primary care centers were (,.) with a range number of (,-,), and the total number was (,). The average numbers of primary care center pharmacists were (.) with a range number of (-), and the total number was (). The average gender distribution of all primary care center pharmacists included male. (.%) and female. (.%). The average nationality distributions of all primary care center pharmacists were audi (.%) and non-audi. (.%). Conclusion: There is very high demand and a shortage of hospital and primary care center pharmacist at inistry of Health in audi Arabia. Pharmacy human resources plan should be implemented and necessary updating of pharmacist recruitment standards for hospital and primary care centers are important. Key words: Primary care center, Pharmacist, Workforce, inistry of Health, audi Arabia. INTRODUCTION The primary health care has the prominent role of providing essential and primary healthcare services to patients in the Kingdom of audi Arabia. With expanding the healthcare services, the numbers of healthcare organizations were expanded including hospitals, primary care centers, specialized health centers, and medical cities. [] The primary care centers consisted of medical clinics, nursing services, dental care, pharmacy services and laboratory service. The pharmacy department implemented the pharmaceutical care and emphasized the role of a pharmacists at primary care centers based on, pharmacy strategic planning, audi Center for Healthcare accreditation and American ociety of Health-ystem Pharmacist. [-] The PCC workforce is part of requirements to provide optimal excellence services. everal kinds of literature reported the pharmacy workforces in several countries for hospitals, industry, and community pharmacies. [-] However, it is hard to find the description of PCC pharmacy workforce in full world or audi Arabia or Gulf and iddle East countries. [] The goal of this study is to explore PCC pharmacy workforce at OH primary care centers over eleven years (-) at twenty regions in audi Arabia. ETHOD It is a retrospective analysis of eleven years (-) of OH primary healthcare center (PCC) pharmacist workforce. All data were derived from inistry of Health tatistical Year Books. [,-] It included a pharmacist or clinical pharmacist s workforces at OH primary healthcare centers. The type of PCC levels services included in the studies. All pharmacists expected to provide pharmaceutical according to AHP definition and requirements. All type of pharmacy services based on audi Central Board of hospital accreditation, Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation, AHP best practice standards, and general administration of the pharmaceutical care strategic plan. [-] All Pharmacist works at OH hospitals or administration or non-oh government hospitals and primary care centers were excluded from the studies. All private hospitals or community pharmacists were excluded from the study. All pharmacy technicians were excluded from the study. All calculations were based on OH workforce standards of PCC. All calculations were done using icrosoft Excel version ten. The calculations were per each region for a total twenty-one regions; the primary health care centers distribution numbers, the pharmacist distribution numbers, the ratio of pharmacist per primary healthcare center, the gender distribution of Pharmacists per region, the gender distribution of audi Pharmacists per each region across audi Arabia. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-hareAlike. License Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community edicine Vol. Issue (pecial Issue) Jan-ar www.jppcm.org
Alomi, et al.: Primary Care Center Pharmacists Workforce in audi Arabia REULT The total numbers of hospitals were hospitals,, primary care centers, and administration regions. The total numbers of pharmacists were, distributed at hospital, (. %), at primary care centers (. %) while administration regions (. %) the last update information October as explored in Table. The average numbers of primary care centers were (,.) with a range number of (,-,), and the total number was (,). The highest region had a number of primary care centers were (.) followed by (.) and regions (.) of PCC. The average numbers of primary care center pharmacists were (.) with a range number of (-), and the total number was (). The highest region had a number of primary care center pharmacists was () followed the by (.) and East Province regions (.) pharmacists as explore in Table and Table. The average gender distribution of all primary care center pharmacists was male. (.%) and female. (.%). The average nationality distributions of all primary care center pharmacists were audi (.%) and non-audi. (.%). Of audi primary care center pharmacists. (.%) were male and. (. %) were female as explored in Table, and. DICUION The inistry of Health over the past several years have increased the number of primary care healthcare centers several times over twenty regions. [] The OH during strategic health planning updated the skeletons, geographic locations, internal departments, the type of level devices, and type of specialties. In addition to primary care centers standard collaborations with audi Center for Healthcare Accreditation. [] The pharmacy administration founded national pharmacy practice and clinical program, national pharmacy administration program, primary care pharmacy administration, PCC pharmacist competencies and primary care pharmacy workforce. [,-] All those things occurred based on OH strategic plan and updated pharmacy strategic plan and review of requirements of PCC from all PCC pharmacy-related issues. [] The authors reviewed the past eleven years of the workforce of a pharmacist at OH primary healthcare at twenty regions in the Kingdom of audi Arabia. The findings showed that, with incremental of number of PCC the number of a pharmacists working are still the same or decreased sometime over twenty regions in Kingdom of audi Arabia. The gender distribution was almost fifty percent male and female even with audi pharmacist. However, in city the female pharmacists were more than a male pharmacist, and most of them were from audi. In general, most of the new graduated female pharmacist wished to work at a hospital or PCC governmental sectors. They found very high job security than private sectors. Also, the male pharmacist wishes to work at pharmaceutical companies due to high salaries than governmental hospital or PCC, and excellent career development. The number of PCC is high in city and most of the pharmaceutical companies located in city. The nationality distribution was very high audi pharmacist due to full implementation of audization at Primary care centers. Another parameter of pharmacy workforces at PCC could not mention because it missed at OH Table : demographic information of hospital and primary care distributions current year. Region No of Hospitals No of PCC No of Hospital Pharmacist No of PCC Pharmacist No of Pharmacist at Directorates OH akkah adina Total Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community edicine Vol. Issue (pecial Issue) Jan-ar www.jppcm.org
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Alomi, et al.: Primary Care Center Pharmacists Workforce in audi Arabia Table : Gender Distribution of audi PCC Pharmacist per region. ean.. akkah...... adina.........................................................%.% statistical books. ost of the studies not investigated at primary healthcare centers, and difficult to compare with them due to it is the first study in audi Arabia, Gulf and iddle East counties and even over all the world. CONCLUION The numbers of pharmacists were inferior at Primary health care centers. The audization program had a full implementation at primary care centers. The gender distribution of pharmacists are almost equal in ratio and there was a significant difference at some places like city. Targeting for increasing the number of a pharmacists with the equal percentage of male and female gender at inistry of Health primary care centers is highly recommended to improve pharmaceutical care services offered to the patients. ACKNOWLEDGEENT None CONLICT O INTERET None ABBREVIATION UED KA: Kingdom of audi Arabia; OH: inistry of Health; REERENCE. audi inistry of Health. Health tatistical Year Book.. audi inistry of Health;. Available from: http://www.moh.gov.sa/en/inistry/tatistics/book/ Pages/default.aspx. Alomi YA. National Primary Care Pharmacist Competency ystem at OH in audi Arabia. J Pharm Pharm cien. ;():-.. The audi Central Board or Accreditation Of Healthcare Institutions (CBAHI). Primary Healthcare Accreditation tandards.. - p.. Kimberly A. Galt, Richard. Demers RNH. AHP statement on the pharmacist s role in primary care. Am J Heal Pharm. ;():-.. cleod DC. Contrast in Pharmacy anpower Planning between the United tates and Northen European Countries. Drug Intell Clin Pharm. ;:-.. HRA. A study of the supply and demand for pharmacists. Department of Health and Human ervices.. p.. Available from: www.fip.org/humanresource. Bond CA, Raehl CL, Patry R. Evidence-based core clinical pharmacy services in United tates hospitals in : services and staffing. Pharmacotherapy. ;():-.. Bond CA, Raehl CL. Clinical pharmacy services, pharmacy staffing, and adverse drug reactions in United tates hospitals. Pharmacotherapy. ;():-.. Bond CA, Raehl CL. Clinical pharmacy services, pharmacy staffing, and hospital mortality rates. Pharmacotherapy. ;():-.. Hawthorne N, Anderson C. The global pharmacy workforce: A systematic review of the literature. Hum Resour Health. ;():.. Gal D, Bates I. IP Global Pharmacy Workforce Report.. Available from: www.fip.org/humanresource. Workforce H. Pharmacist Workforce.. Provincial / Territorial Highlights. ;. Health Workforce Australia. Australia s Health Workforce eries: Pharmacists in ocus. :-.. Gaither CA, chommer JC, Doucette WR, Kreling DH, ott DA.. National Pharmacist Workforce urvey. Workforce.. Available from: http://www. pharmacy.wsu.edu/information/.pharmacist.workforce.urvey.pdf. Robinson E, hcherbakova N. Assessment of Pharmacy anpower and ervices in New England. J Pharm Pract. ;():-.. Pedersen CA, chneider PJ, checkelhoff DJ. AHP national survey of pharmacy practice in hospital settings: Dispensing and administration -. Am J Heal Pharm. ;():-.. mith A. Pharmacists and the primary care workforce. Ann Pharmacother. ;():-.. Health tatistical Year Book. audi inistry of Health. Available from: http:// www.moh.gov.sa/en/inistry/tatistics/book/pages/default.aspx. Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Community edicine Vol. Issue (pecial Issue) Jan-ar www.jppcm.org
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