PhD Scholarship Smoking Cessation Pharmacy Service

Project Member(s): Williams, K., Garcia Cardenas, M.

Funding or Partner Organisation: Glaxo Smith Kline (Glaxo Smith Kline Australia - Post Graduate Support Grant Scheme)

Start year: 2015

Summary: The research project will develop, implement and evaluate a smoking cessation service in a community pharmacy setting. The service will be delivered via an inter-professional model of care and may include a number of components, including goal setting, management plans, smoking cessation products recommendation, ongoing advice and follow up, as well as referral systems to other healthcare professionals, in particular general practitioners. A sustainable financial/business model for the service will also be developed and tested.

Keywords: Smoking cessation, community pharmacy, inter-professional collaboration, professional services, pharmacy practice

FOR Codes: Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Practice, Health and Community Services, Health Education and Promotion, Evaluation of Health Outcomes

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.