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This chapter focuses on pharmaceutical care provision in Europe . It describes the pharmacy structure, pharmacists’ workforce and research in pharmacy practice in Europe , while highlighting selected countries with particularities. The diversity of pharmacy services, their complexity and their influence on the evolution of more structured services is explored. There is a tendency for a greater uptake of simpler services like medication review (type I) with a greater difficulty in establishing long-term care that requires interprofessional collaboration . Examples of milestone research studies are given due to their influence on service provision. The progressive spread of pharmaceutical care from central and northern Europe to south and more recently to eastern countries is also briefly mentioned. The influence of incentives, such as legal recognition, professional collaboration and remuneration for service provision, has been mentioned contextually, as described in Fig. 14.1. However, it should be noted that the role of the citizens as an engine determining successful implementation has not been explored (see Chap. 3). Similarly, the theoretical influence of the illustrated boxes is not detailed in this chapter (see Chap. 18).

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The original version of this chapter was revised: The affiliation of editor, Professor Filipa Alves da Costa has been updated. The erratum to this chapter is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92576-9_41

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  • 02 November 2018

    Correction to: F. Alves da Costa et al. (eds.), The Pharmacist Guide to Implementing Pharmaceutical Care, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92576-9 The original version of the book was published with the affiliation “Ordem dos Farmacêuticos (Portuguese Pharmaceutical Society), Lisbon, Portugal” of the editor, Professor “Filipa Alves da Costa” in the frontmatter and in chapters 5, 14, 35, 37 and 38, which has now been changed to “Instituto Universitário Egas Moniz (IUEM), Monte da Caparica, Portugal”.

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  3. Universidad de San Martín de Porres, Lima, Peru

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Alves da Costa, F. (2019). Pharmaceutical Care in Europe. In: Alves da Costa, F., van Mil, J., Alvarez-Risco, A. (eds) The Pharmacist Guide to Implementing Pharmaceutical Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92576-9_14

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