Volume 6, Issue 2 (2026)

Community pharmacy is increasingly positioned as a public-health setting, yet expertise, service reach, and professional trust do not themselves establish influence over the commercial and policy conditions shaping population health. This conceptual article develops a Collective Political-Agency Framework explaining how distributed pharmacy expertise can become legitimate public-health influence. It distinguishes professional capability from political access, voice, representation, agenda-settin

Patient-safety regulation in pharmacy commonly places substantial responsibility on individual pharmacists while many conditions that shape safe practice are determined elsewhere. Staffing establishments, skill mix, workload allocation, performance targets, workflow design, information access, and the practical room to exercise professional judgment may be controlled by owners, corporate structures, managers, regulators, or combinations of these actors. This article develops a Regulatory-Governa

Pharmacy remuneration commonly attaches financial recognition to discrete activities or completed encounters, even when medication-related need persists beyond the point at which the billable event ends. This creates a potential mismatch between the unit of payment and the longitudinal work required to make care effective. This conceptual and policy article develops a Continuity-Oriented Remuneration Framework for examining that mismatch. The framework separates five questions that payment syste

Medication management in multimorbidity can require choosing among several legitimate aims rather than maximizing one clinical endpoint. Patients may value symptom control, independence, longevity, treatment simplicity, affordability, and freedom from adverse effects, while clinicians must consider safety, expected benefit, feasibility, and continuity. These aims may become mutually constraining when one medication decision advances some priorities while compromising others. This article develop

Medication-safety interventions are often judged by whether they are implemented and remain present, yet continued existence is an incomplete account of sustainability. Safer practice has to be reproduced through recurrent work: routines enacted, exceptions managed, knowledge transferred, conditions monitored, and adaptations kept compatible with the safety functions they are meant to protect. This article develops a Practice-Theory Persistence–Erosion Model explaining how medication-safety impr

To synthesize review-level evidence on pharmacy-delivered vaccination and preventive screening while distinguishing effectiveness, equity reporting, healthcare integration and continuity, methodological quality, and dependence created by overlapping primary studies. Umbrella review of systematic reviews and structured evidence syntheses concerning pharmacist- or community-pharmacy-delivered vaccination and preventive screening. Reporting followed PRISMA 2020 and overview-of-reviews principles wh

To interpret how socially marginalized people experience stigma, disclosure, dignity, and belonging in community-pharmacy encounters and to construct a higher-order explanation through reciprocal and refutational translation. Meta-ethnography conducted using Noblit-and-Hare interpretive logic and contemporary eMERGe reporting principles. Eight PubMed-indexed discovery searches were executed on 14 September 2026 and supplemented by citation chaining and targeted verification. Searches addressed s

Medication self-management is commonly described as an individual capability, behaviour, or responsibility, yet medicines are often managed through distributed practical, cognitive, relational, and organisational work performed by patients, family caregivers, and health services. This critical interpretive synthesis examined how contemporary medication self-management literature distributes, obscures, or normalises that work and how assumptions of independence shape its representation. Searches

Interprofessional education (IPE) is widely used to prepare health-professions learners for collaborative practice, yet evidence that educational gains translate into negotiated professional roles and shared medication decisions in clinical settings remains fragmented.To integrate quantitative and qualitative evidence concerning interprofessional pharmacy education, role negotiation, and translation from educational outcomes into collaborative medication decision-making in practice.A mixed-metho

Extreme heat and flooding can threaten medicine integrity, interrupt medicine supply and access, and increase the difficulty of reaching communities already affected by geographic, socioeconomic, or health-related vulnerability. This rapid review examined evidence relevant to community-pharmacy protection of medicines, continuity of supply and access, communication with vulnerable communities, operational preparedness, and coordination with other services during extreme heat and flooding. A rapi