Abstract Pharmaceutical Care is a patient-centered, outcome-oriented pharmacy practice that requires the qualified pharmacist to work in concert with the patient and the patient’s other healthcare providers to promote health, to prevent disease, and to assess, monitor, initiate, and modify medication use to assure that drug therapy regimens are safe and effective. The goal of Pharmaceutical Care is to optimize the patient’s health-related quality of life and achieve positive clinical outcomes. Pharmaceutical care entails the work of addressing a patient’s medication related needs. The involvement of the pharmacist in India in this regard has been somewhat restricted, contrary to trends in developed countries. Nowadays medicine options have multiplied manifold thus raising the complexity of therapies. Pharmacists have a unique role to play in evaluating these options and also medication errors which are most common in occurrence. The present article explained about the functions of pharmacist in pharmaceutical care and barriers towards pharmaceutical care.
Keywords Pharmaceutical care, Medication errors, pharmacy practice.