I certainly understand that pharmacies provide some healthcare-related services.
In many countries a pharmacist can recommend and sell certain medications without the patient needing to see a physician, so they are both a retail business + a healthcare service. But amenity=pharmacy is just fine for this: consider that hospitals are mapped as amenity=hospital and a doctor's surgery (office) is amenity=doctors. There is no point in using 2 synonymous tags to map one feature. We should just use the established tag amenity=pharmacy and deprecate healthcare=pharmacy -- Joseph Eisenberg On Tue, Apr 28, 2020 at 11:19 AM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2020 at 18:16, Joseph Eisenberg <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Approving this proposal will re-affirm the previous approval of >> amenity=pharma. This will make it clear that healthcare=pharmacy is not >> needed and should be deprecated. >> > > All very logical and well-reasoned. But... > > In the UK people are now advised to see pharmacists rather than GPs for > certain minor ailments. This has come about in recent years to take the > load off GPs (we don't have enough of them). > > From > https://www.healthwatch.co.uk/advice-and-information/2019-01-15/should-i-see-pharmacist-instead-doctor > "Your local pharmacist might also offer other NHS services such as smoking > cessation, blood pressure tests, weight management and flu vaccination. To > find out what your community pharmacist offers, just ask them." > > A list of services available at some pharmacies in Wales: > https://www.nhsdirect.wales.nhs.uk/localservices/pharmacyinformation/ > and in England: > > https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/nhs-services/pharmacies/what-to-expect-from-your-pharmacy-team/ > These pharmacies are more than simple shops and do more than just dispense > drugs a doctor (or nurse practitioner) has prescribed. > > Pharmacists may prescribe independently (with provisos): > > https://www.pharmacyregulation.org/education/pharmacist-independent-prescriber > So suitably-qualified pharmacists bear a similar relationship to ordinary > pharmacists that nurse practitioners bear to nurses: they are qualified > (within > the range of their training) to diagnose and prescribe. That's healthcare. > > It seems that some pharmacies may merit being tagged under healthcare. > Of course, this will lead to mappers tagging pharmacies incorrectly, but I > don't think > we can say that no pharmacy must ever be tagged under healthcare, just > that they > should also be tagged under healthcare if specific conditions are met. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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