Top Pharmacists in Singapore

What Is a Pharmacist? 

Pharmacists are also formerly known as chemists or druggists, who are skilful healthcare professionals who specialise in the usage of medicines. In deep terms, they help to manage the composition, effects, mechanism as well as proper and safe usage of drugs. In simple terms, they are healthcare professionals who practice pharmaceutical processes. Often seen in pharmacies, they are involved in all aspects of medicine delivery to patients. Most of us will recognise these pharmacists who help to sort medications, monitor patients’ health and advise on the proper selection, intake, dosages and side effects of the medications.

Professional pharmacists who are registered with the Singapore Pharmacy Council (SPC) can login to the secure pages of the MOH Portal to access important information.

In short, professional pharmacists are required to manage important tasks such as:

• selecting the dosages of medicines supplied to patients
• ensuring that the medicines prescribed to patients are suitable for their medical conditions
• ensuring that the supply of medicines is within the law (abided by law and safe for consumption)
• advising patients about medicines such as answering doubts about how to take them and what side effects may occur
• managing the medicines supply chain and ensuring pharmacy physical premises and systems are fit for purpose
• responding to patients’ medical symptoms and advising suitable medicines for sale in clinics
• providing professional services to patients such as smoking cessation, blood pressure measurement, cholesterol management and other important tasks
• supervising the production, preparation of medicines and assessments of quality medicines before dispatching to the respective pharmacies
• educating other incoming healthcare professionals about safe and effective usage and supply of medicines

What Are the Requirements of a Top Pharmacist?

Professional pharmacists possess good pharmaceutical knowledge and play an essential role in educating future generations of pharmacists and securing the healthcare of patients. They should be verified and certified with an education in pharmaceutical practices. Moreover, professional pharmacists should possess a rich working experience in pharmacies for a credible number of years.

Where Does a Top Pharmacist Work? 

Professional pharmacists are skilful experts in medicines. They usually work in many different professional work environments. Like what most has seen on films, pharmacists are usually working in a clean, sterile, white clinical environments such as:

• community pharmacies (or also known as retail or walk-in pharmacies such as NTUC Unity)
• community (public) or private hospitals
• pharmaceutical production or sales in the pharmaceutical industry
• prisons
• primary care organisations
• universities (clinical services as well as teaching and research purposes)
• military
• veterinary pharmacy and pharmacy organisations

While there is a wide range of working environments for professional pharmacists, most of them work in local community and hospital pharmacies such as polyclinics.

Cost of Visiting a Top Pharmacist

Most pharmacist-led clinic charges the patient with a price range of $10 to $100 (depending on location and experience of the pharmacist). The average cost of seeing a pharmacist can be as low as $10 for a subsidised patient but can be easily doubled for a private patient. For patients with financial difficulties, the cost of visiting a private pharmacist is rather a major challenge. Fortunately, most pharmacies’ fees are subsidised for Singaporeans in any local polyclinics.

Benefits of Top Pharmacists

1. Improves compliance to medications

According to a report called “Impact of a pharmacist consult clinic on a hospital-based outpatient clinic in Singapore”, the addition of a pharmacist clinic has evidently shown the improvements in patients’ compliance to medications, with additional benefits of better drug knowledge, cost avoidance and reduced residual adverse drug reactions. With reference to a quote from a patient in the report, he said that “I prefer to see the pharmacists because they have the time to explain the correct use of the drug in detail”. This shows the importance of a pharmacy as it helps patients to better comprehend the details of a particular drug.

2. Improves clinical outcome

In a local hospital called ‘Singapore General Hospital‘, patients visiting an ACC pharmacist are shown to have a reduced hospitalisation rate resulting from warfarin-linked complications. The statistical figure has gradually dropped from approximately nine per cent in 2001 to less than two per cent in 2011. This shows the significance of an improved clinical outcome due to the influx of local professional pharmacies.

3. Reduces the doctor’s workload

It has been shown that the doctor’s workload is reduced as the monitoring and review of patients’ medical history and medication is usually managed by the pharmacist. The pharmacist can take his/her time to resolve drug related problems, especially with regular patients. This helps to free up doctors’ time as pharmacists get to spend more time to deal with drug-related matters.

All in all, these are the top recommendations for the best pharmacist in Singapore. These professional listings will be extremely helpful to you. The top pharmacists listed are professionally specialised in their field of studies and deliver remarkable services and results for patients.

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