Calls upon policymakers and professional pharmaceutical bodies to stress the importance pharmacists can have in addressing climate change by involving them in decision-making in this area.

Calls upon IPSF and its Member Organisations to advocate for education and raising awareness on the impact of climate change on global health with campaigns aimed at students and the general populace.

 

IPSF EuRO Calls upon universities to promote interprofessional collaboration by collaborating with different stakeholders to modernise pharmaceutical curricula, and fill the knowledge gaps resulting from the expansion of the role of community pharmacists, clinical pharmacists, increasing self-medication by patients, and global challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic, antimicrobial resistance and the increasing prevalence of mental health disorders.

 

Recognising that Interprofessional Education (IPE) leads to a collaborative practice-ready workforce, and collaborative practice leads to a strengthened healthcare system, resulting in improved patient health outcomes.

Interprofessional Collaboration (IPC) is rooted early in the start of healthcare studies and different healthcare students should be exposed to IPC during their academic studies. 

Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) as a major global public health matter threatening the health of humans and animals, and impacting aspects such as socio-economic development and food safety.

Alarmed by the continued rise of AMR, the excessively high amount of antibiotic use, increase in community and nosocomial infections, and the common low variation of prescription of antibiotics in a given population. 

A robust sustainable health system is needed to ensure that the best quality health care services are delivered to the patients and therefore health systems must be sustained by a motivated and trained health workforce. In fact, as the complexity of health care services grows, services become increasingly dependent on the competencies of more than one profession, requiring multi-professional teams of health-care providers .