The Hospital Pharmacy Initiative was a Department of Health funded programme in England between 2003 and 2006. It has produced a number of benefits that are organizational, educational, professional, clinical and economic. The opportunity to share experiences, identify what works well and collaborate across national boundaries to address a problem that is taxing all governments and NHS acute trusts and causes considerable concern to patients and their families should be a common goal for the UK.
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