The Value of a Twitter-based Community of Practice for Pharmacy Professionals in the UK

As a means to work across settings and geography, @WePharmacists is a volunteer-led online social-media group open to anyone, with particular relevance to those operating in or with pharmacy teams in the UK. The goal of WePharmacists is to pursue better patient care and outcomes from medicines throu...

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Main Author: James Andrews (Author)
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Published: University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing, 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
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