Health care reform legislation presents a unique opportunity for pharmacy issues to be heard. This toolkit contains the tools and resources you need to start advocacy projects at the local level. Advocacy is not only important – it's essential!
General Advocacy Resources
- Developing an Advocacy Agenda: Political, Professional, and Personal Passions (CE Webinar)
- Advocacy - Where Would You Even Start (Blog)
- Overview of Key Pharmacy Practice Issues
- Implementation of a grassroots advocacy movement through state and local collaboration
- Elevator Speech - Suggested talking points when meeting with legislators:
Invite your Legislator to Work
Give your state and federal legislators an up close look at legislative issues relevant to pharmacy by hosting a visit at your site.
Attend a Legislative Day
A meeting with your elected official in their Washington D.C. or local office will educate them about your role on the healthcare team.
- Making introductions
- Planning for an office visit
- Virtual Meetings with Legislators
- Locate your legislators
- Sample Thank You Letter [DOC]
For More Information
- ASHP Advocacy Resources
- ASHP Grassroots Action Center
- Legislators Supported by ASHP
- Contribute to the ASHP-PAC
AJHP Literature Supporting Impact of Pharmacists' Services
- Medicaid reimbursement for pharmacist services: A strategy for the pharmacy profession
- Inpatient Pharmacy Services:
- Impact of advanced practice pharmacists on a culture response program in the emergency department
- A multicenter quality improvement initiative on the impact of pharmacists’ postdischarge follow-up to reduce medication-related acute care episodes
- Impact of a pharmacist collaborative drug therapy management protocol on utilization of a discharge prescription program and hospital readmissions
- Real-world evidence on impact of a pharmacist-led transitional care program on 30- and 90-day readmissions after acute care episodes
- Evaluation of a pharmacist-managed anemia service in pregnant patients
- Impact of pharmacist-directed pain management service on an inpatient opioid use, pain control, and patient safety.
- Outpatient Pharmacy Services:
- Physicians’ and advanced practice providers’ perceptions of the impact of embedded clinical pharmacists on the work environment in ambulatory care clinic
- Assessing the impact of clinical pharmacists on naloxone coprescribing in the primary care setting
- Impact of enhanced pharmacy services on adherence for patients with hypertension
- Necessity of pharmacist-driven nonprescription telehealth consult services in the era of COVID-19
- Impact of a pharmacist-driven transitions of care clinic for a multisite integrated delivery network
- Assessing the impact of a payor-funded embedded clinical pharmacist on patient and provider satisfaction in a private primary care practice
- Evaluation of the impact of a clinic infusion pharmacist on the retention of infusion therapy
- Impact of a pharmacist-led telehealth oral chemotherapy clinic
- Role and impact of a clinical pharmacist in an ambulatory reproductive endocrinology and infertility clinic
- Role of the pharmacist in refugee health
- Treatment of patients with HIV or hepatitis C by pharmacist clinicians in a patient-centered medical home