THE US National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA) has endorsed the Pharmacy and Medically Underserved Areas Enhancement Act, legislation recognising pharmacists as health care providers, enabling them in medically underserved areas to offer and be compensated for an expanded scope of patient-care services.
NCPA ceo Douglas Hoey said, "Pharmacists are highly-accessible, clinically-trained medication experts who can improve health outcomes and reduce overall costs.
"The bill follows on the heels of the Senate's introduction of an identical bill. We hope the common-sense, bicameral, bipartisan legislation, which also generated a lot of support in the previous Congress, can pass both chambers and make it to President Trump's desk for his signature."
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