Given their frontline relationship with patients, community pharmacists fill a vital role in our healthcare system. This article offers three perspectives on how a team-based approach, which integrates the community pharmacist, can enhance patient care and reduce system costs. It is the success of these partnership models which have helped drive system-level change. It offers reflections by Dr. Ross T. Tsuyuki, among Canada’s leading researchers on the subject, and presents some findings over his 20-year partnership with Merck in Canada. Dr. Tsuyuki’s peer-reviewed studies have been largely centred in Alberta, one province in which the scope of practice for pharmacists has been expanded.
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