Peat, George orcid.org/0000-0002-0293-2456, Olaniyan, Janice, Fylan, Beth et al. (4 more authors) (2022) Mapping the resilience performance of community pharmacy to maintain patient safety during the Covid-19 pandemic. Research in social & administrative pharmacy : RSAP. pp. 3534-3541. ISSN 1934-8150
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The first UK wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 placed unprecedented stress on community pharmacy. Various policies and initiatives were announced during this period to support community pharmacy to continue to perform in a manner that prioritised patient safety. However, little is understood about how these policies and initiatives were implemented by staff working in community pharmacy, and the system adaptions and responses that were initiated to maintain patient safety. OBJECTIVE: The study aimed to investigate how staff working in UK community pharmacy during the first waves of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 responded and adapted to system stressors to maintain patient safety. METHODS: We adopted a qualitative interview approach, underpinned by Resilient Healthcare theory, with interview data collected between July 2020 and January 2021. Data were synthesised and analysed using Framework Analysis. RESULTS: 23 community pharmacy staff from England and Scotland were interviewed. We identified five themes supported by between two and six sub-themes: 1. Covid-19, an impending threat to system; 2. Patient safety stressors during the first waves of Covid-19; 3. Altering the system, responding to system stressors; 4. Monitoring and adjusting and 5. Learning for the future. CONCLUSION: Privileging the accounts of community pharmacy staff working on the frontline during the pandemic illuminated how responses and adaptions were developed and deployed, how continual monitoring occurred, and the factors that supported or hindered system resilience. The key learning derived from this study can serve to shorten the gap between 'work as imagined' and 'work as done', and in doing so, support the future resilience performance of community pharmacy during future outbreaks of Covid-19 or similar events.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an author-produced version of the published paper. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher’s self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Sciences (York) > Health Sciences (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 16 Feb 2022 12:50 |
Last Modified: | 03 Dec 2024 01:15 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2022.01.004 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.sapharm.2022.01.004 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:183697 |
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