Strategic Plan of General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care at Ministry of Health in Saudi Arabia 2012 – 2022

General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care at Ministry of Health (GAPC-MOH) in Saudi Arabia is responsible of implementing pharmaceutical care and related issues to all pharmaceutical care services of health care setting. General administration of pharmaceutical care established updated strategic plan after reviewing several strategic plans of national and international pharmaceutical organizations. The Strategic plan contains 5 general strategies, 15 initiatives, and 83 projects. The plan should follow up by assessment elements measures to reach successful results, its including but not limited general pharmacy services assessment, medication safety assessment, and patient satisfaction of pharmacy services, pharmacist competency, and pharmacist job satisfaction. The strategic plan for governmental pharmaceutical administrations is pathway map for all health care providers with emphasis on pharmacists, clinical pharmacists and pharmacy administrators. It is needed to implement pharmaceutical care in organized and long term method, to improve patient’s outcome, and avoiding unnecessary cost in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Key word: Strategic, Plan, Pharmaceutical Care, Administration, Pharmacist, Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia. Introduction The Cambrige dictionary difined the strategic planning as “ a process in which a company’s executives decide what they want to achieve and the best actions and use of resources for doing this”[1]. The business dictionary difined the strategic plan as “a systematic process of envisioning a desired future, and translating this vision into broadly defined goals or objectives and a sequence of steps to achieve them”[2]. In pharmacy text book indentified strategic planning as “ the process of selecting an organization’s goals, determining the policies and programs (strategies) necessary to achieve specific objectives en route to those goals, and establishing methods necessary to ensure that the policies and strategic programs are implemented” [3]. If serach in the litterature thrugh pubmed serach engine from 1960s up to date about pharmacy strategic planning you will find either pharmay societies or scatered different department within entire hospitals or pharmacy council. May be the oldest institution started with stragetic planning was American Society of Health System Pharmacists (ASHP) through board society or periodic conferences or pharmacy leaders [4-10]. Several Pharmacy societies or institutions later on establisted phramacy strategic plan for instant; American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) [11], British general pharmaceutical council strategic plan [12], International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) vision, mission and strategic plan [13], The pharmacy council’s vision , mission strategic plan at New Zealand [14]. Some internal hospital pharmacy departments in USA designed phrmacy strategic plann but there is not updating for their plan[15]. The authors are not a ware of any publications a bout pharmacy strategic planning designed by any Ministery of Health at any counties in the world wide including but not limited to USA, UK, European countries or Japan. In Saudi Arabia, General Administration of Pharmaceutical Care at Ministry of Health (GAPC-MOH) established the first strategic in a period of 2007 -2012 [16]. In early 2012 new administrators with his team try to update the strategic plan based on discribed method. In this paper we wish to explore strategic plan of general administration of pharmaceutical care at Ministry of Health for coming 10 years 2012-2022. Method GAPC-MOH founded in 2001, It responsible for implementation to more 250 MOH hospital pharmacies, 136 privates’ hospital pharmacies, 209 specialized centres, more than 2250 primary care centres pharmacies, and more than 7000 community pharmacies [17]. GAPC-MOH established task force committee which was consisting from the authors. The committee had reviewed strategic plan based on strategic plan on MOH [1819], pharmaceutical care gulf countries committee plans and standards [20]. In addition; strategic planning of ASHP, ACCP, British general pharmaceutical council, FIP, and the pharmacy council’s at New Zealand had reviewed. The committee issued