Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners Releases Revised Pharmacists' Patient Care Process (PPCP)

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP) today announced the release of the 2025 Pharmacists' Patient Care Process (PPCP), an update to the 2014 PPCP that is intended to reflect pharmacists' contemporary practice and evolving trends in the health care system. The revised 2025 PPCP offers a current and comprehensive framework for pharmacists to provide person-centered care across all pharmacy practice settings. It reinforces pharmacists' critical contributions to optimizing medication and health outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and advancing population health.

A Collaborative, Two-Year Revision Process

The 2025 update is the result of a comprehensive two-year effort by a workgroup composed of representatives from 14 national pharmacy organizations. In June 2023, JCPP convened the Patient Care Process Workgroup (WG), bringing together experts from across the pharmacy profession to assess and revise the PPCP. Using a consensus-based modified Delphi method, the WG systematically reviewed the original 2014 PPCP, integrating feedback from a decade of its use in pharmacy practice, education, and training settings and considering significant shifts in the healthcare landscape and pharmacists' evolving roles in patient care. A public comment period yielded valuable feedback from the broader pharmacy community that informed the final PPCP revisions, which were approved by the JCPP CEOs.

The 2025 PPCP revision has an enhanced focus on pharmacists' medication expertise and responds to major changes in healthcare delivery and pharmacists' expanding roles. Several overarching considerations guided the revision, including the use of person-centered terminology; a focus on health equity, health disparities, and social determinants of health; changes to pharmacists' scope of practice; the emergence of new patient care delivery modes; an emphasis on coordination and collaboration with patients, caregivers, and other health care professionals through team-based care; and learnings from the Comprehensive Medication Management in Primary Care study that validated the PPCP steps.[1]

Next Steps: Implementation and Support

To support the rollout of the 2025 PPCP, JCPP is launching an Implementation Task Force. This group will develop messaging and communication strategies to facilitate interpretation, understanding, and uptake of the revised PPCP, and resources to assist with its integration into diverse pharmacy practice environments and education and training programs.

The 2025 Pharmacists' Patient Care Process can be accessed at www.jcpp.net/patient-care-process.

About JCPP

The Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners (JCPP) is a forum of national pharmacy organizations working collaboratively to develop and advance the profession of pharmacy. Through consensus-building and strategic initiatives, JCPP promotes pharmacist roles in improving patient care and optimizing medication use.

¹ CMM in Primary Care Research Team. The Patient Care Process for Delivering Comprehensive Medication Management (CMM): Optimizing Medication Use in Patient-Centered, Team-Based Care Settings. July 2018. https://www.accp.com/cmm_care_process

SOURCE Joint Commission of Pharmacy Practitioners