eprintid: 10046625 rev_number: 24 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/04/66/25 datestamp: 2018-04-13 13:56:04 lastmod: 2021-11-01 23:47:15 status_changed: 2018-04-13 13:56:04 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Rutter, V creators_name: Chan, AHY creators_name: Tuck, C creators_name: Bader, L creators_name: Baber, Z creators_name: Bates, I title: Weaving the health and pharmaceutical care agenda through the themes of the commonwealth heads of government meeting (CHOGM), London 2018 ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B02 divisions: C08 divisions: D10 divisions: G11 keywords: Commonwealth, Health, Heads of government, Prosperity, Sustainability, Fairness, Security, Partnerships note: © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. abstract: The biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) this year is based around four key themes: prosperity, fairness, sustainability and security. This is an opportune time to consider the role of pharmacists in healthcare delivery, and particularly their contribution to achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As a member of the Commonwealth Health Professions Alliance (CHPA), the Commonwealth Pharmacists Association (CPA) has been working to ensure that pharmacy-related aspects of health are represented in the advocacy papers submitted by Civil Society. Echoing the CHPA’s priorities around SDG 3 (health) and the attainment of sustainable universal health coverage (UHC), the CPA has been raising the profile of key priorities for our members, including: addressing the shortage of healthcare workers (with an emphasis on pharmacists); need for access to quality medicines and medicines information; tackling anti-microbial resistance and substandard/falsified medicines; and championing the role of digitalisation and partnerships. This editorial discusses how the work of the CPA links with the themes of CHOGM, the CPA’s input into this meeting and the direction of travel ‘Towards a Common Future’ for health and pharmacy in the Commonwealth. date: 2018-04-11 date_type: published publisher: Springer Nature official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40545-018-0140-3 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green article_type_text: Editorial Comment verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1548722 doi: 10.1186/s40545-018-0140-3 lyricists_name: Bates, Ian lyricists_name: Chan, Amy Hai Yan lyricists_id: IBATE37 lyricists_id: AHYCH99 actors_name: Bates, Ian actors_id: IBATE37 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice volume: 11 article_number: 10 issn: 2052-3211 citation: Rutter, V; Chan, AHY; Tuck, C; Bader, L; Baber, Z; Bates, I; (2018) Weaving the health and pharmaceutical care agenda through the themes of the commonwealth heads of government meeting (CHOGM), London 2018. Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice , 11 , Article 10. 10.1186/s40545-018-0140-3 <https://doi.org/10.1186/s40545-018-0140-3>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10046625/1/Editorial_FIPEd%20CPA_April%202018.pdf