‘Community pharmacists must not be overlooked any longer’

Pharmacists should be equipped with the skills and confidence to discuss health behaviours with patients, experts say  Australia’s community pharmacists need to play a bigger role in helping patients to address lifestyle issues to prevent chronic and infectious diseases, write Curtin University's Dr Chloe Maxwell-Smith and Associate Professor Fei Sim.  What do we know?  We know that healthy lifestyle behaviours prevent illness.