ASHP believes that pharmaceutical care is an important
new concept that represents growth in the profession beyond
clinical pharmacy as often practiced and beyond other activities
of pharmacists, including medication preparation and dispensing. All of these professional activities are important, however,
and ASHP continues to be a strong proponent of the necessity
for pharmacists’ involvement in them. In practice, these activities should be integrated with and culminate in pharmaceutical
care provided by individual pharmacists to individual patients.