AUTHOR=Almaghaslah Dalia 

TITLE=An analysis of pharmacy workforce capacity in Saudi Arabia

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Pharmacology

VOLUME=Volume 14 - 2023

YEAR=2023

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/pharmacology/articles/10.3389/fphar.2023.1219528

DOI=10.3389/fphar.2023.1219528

ISSN=1663-9812

ABSTRACT=Previous reports have highlighted the core issues with the intelligence of the national pharmacy workforce reliance on non-native pharmacists, despite the increasing supply of local pharmacy graduates; limited participation of female pharmacists in the workforce; and inadequate proportions of pharmacists in primary healthcare centres, resulting in pharmaceutical services being provided without a pharmacist's supervision.The current study used a retrospective cross-sectional design and data was collected from January to