Publications
Diabetes prevention, screening and management: A handbook for pharmacists (2021)
This handbook supports the Practice Transformation Programme on Diabetes. It presents an overview of diabetes and describes the various services pharmacists can provide aiming at disease prevention, screening, disease state management and treatment optimisation.
Knowledge and skills reference guide for professional development in diabetes (2022)
New diabetes reference guide focuses on helping pharmacists achieve required competencies:
“Knowledge and skills reference guide for professional development in diabetes”.
FIP has been championing the role of pharmacists in preventing and treating chronic diseases, including diabetes, since 2006, and this latest guide, which is intended as a companion to the FIP diabetes handbook for pharmacists published in 2021, will help pharmacists to identify and acquire the competencies, such as screening and clinical management, they need to provide services for patients with diabetes.
As well as supporting pharmacists to upskill themselves as their careers develop, the new FIP publication is intended to guide the design and delivery of education and training programmes by continuing professional development providers. The guide acknowledges that there are some barriers to and regulations around providing diabetes-related services in some countries but emphasises that “the incorporation of pharmacists into multidisciplinary diabetes care teams should always be strongly considered by clinicians and health policymakers”.
Nutrition and weight management services: a toolkit for pharmacists (2021)
This toolkit provides an international collection of best practices of professional services, evidence and guidance for nutrition-related and weight-management services both for pharmacist organisations and individual practitioners.
Beating non-communicable diseases in the community: The contribution of pharmacists (2019)
FIP statement of policy on “The role of pharmacists in non-communicable diseases” (2019)
This FIP statement of policy renews the commitment of the profession to the optimal prevention, detection and care of patients living with NCDs. It replaces the 2006 FIP Policy Statement on the role of the pharmacist in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases.
Pharmacists’ contribution to diabetes care (2011)
This briefing document presents different activities for diabetes prevention and care that pharmacists are involved in.
