The role of community pharmacists in managing common headache disorders, and their integration within structured headache services: position statement on behalf of the European Headache Federation (EHF) and Lifting The Burden (LTB: the Global Campaign against Headache), with the formal endorsement of the International Pharmaceutical Federation

Heba BaniHani; Christian Lampl; Antoinette MaassenvandenBrink; Faisal Mohammad Amin; Louise Ninett Carlsen; Gianluca Coppola; Christina Deligianni; Raquel Gil-Gouveia; Philip R Holland; Andreas K Husoy; Rigmor Jensen; Madalena Placido; Uwe Reuter; Kristina Ryliškienė; Margarita Sanchez del Rio; Henrik Winther Schytz; Erling Tronvik; Jan Versijpt; Timothy J Steiner

doi:10.1186/s10194-025-02021-3

Title	The role of community pharmacists in managing common headache disorders, and their integration within structured headache services: position statement on behalf of the European Headache Federation (EHF) and Lifting The Burden (LTB: the Global Campaign against Headache), with the formal endorsement of the International Pharmaceutical Federation
Authors	BaniHani, Heba ; Lampl, Christian ; MaassenvandenBrink, Antoinette ; Amin, Faisal Mohammad ; Carlsen, Louise Ninett ; Coppola, Gianluca ; Deligianni, Christina ; Gil-Gouveia, Raquel ; Holland, Philip R ; Husoy, Andreas K ; Jensen, Rigmor ; Placido, Madalena ; Reuter, Uwe ; Ryliškienė, Kristina ; del Rio, Margarita Sanchez ; Schytz, Henrik Winther ; Tronvik, Erling ; Versijpt, Jan ; Steiner, Timothy J
DOI	10.1186/s10194-025-02021-3
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Is Part of	Journal of headache and pain.. London : BioMed Central Ltd. 2025, vol. 26, iss. 1, art. no. 100, p. [1-6].. ISSN 1129-2369. eISSN 1129-2377
Keywords [eng]	universal health coverage ; headache disorders ; migraine ; tension-type headache ; medication-overuse headache ; community pharmacists ; structured headache services ; Global Campaign against Headache
Abstract [eng]	In the sustainable development goals (SDG) context of seeking universal health coverage, the expanding gap between the supply of specialized and primary health-care providers of headache-related health care and the care needs of the very large number of people afected by headache is a formidable but not insoluble public-health challenge. Structured headache services provide a cost-efective framework wherein controlled patient fows enable the care needs of people with headache to be met at appropriate levels, but these services may still be overwhelmed by inap‑ propriate demand. Community pharmacists are an underutilized resource, potentially well able to provide the solution. To do so, they must, as a profession, be integrated into structured headache services. What remains to be determined is how to achieve this integration in an encouraging climate for change, which recog‑ nises the potential for relieving strained health-care systems and meeting a range of health-care needs by expanding pharmacists’ scope of practice. This position statement on behalf of the European Headache Federation (EHF) and Lifting The Burden (LTB) is formally endorsed by the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP).
Published	London : BioMed Central Ltd
Type	Journal article
Language	English
Publication date	2025
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