2021 Test time is set! Review the three key points of the development of practicing pharmacists in 2020!

Medicine Network January 27 - January 26, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Office issued "on the 2021 professional and technical personnel vocational qualification examination work plan and related matters notice", formally finalized the 2021 professional pharmacist qualification examination time of October 23-24, 2021.
2020, a key year for the development of licensed pharmacists.
according to the information released by the National Drug Administration's Center for the Qualification of Practicing Pharmacists, as of the end of November 2020, the number of registered practicing pharmacists nationwide was 569,728, an increase of 5,627 over the previous month.
In order to improve the management system for the registration of practicing pharmacists, on December 23, 2020, the State Drug Administration revised the Interim Measures for the Registration and Administration of Practicing Pharmacists (National Drug Regulator No. 156), forming the Measures for the Administration of the Registration of Practicing Pharmacists (Draft for Comments) to be officially released to the public.
, practicing pharmacists are also beginning to face a series of key issues of development, such as higher entry barriers, differentiated staffing, and capacity-building in professional services.
The entry threshold is raised, and the promotion of professional gold content 2020 is the last year for candidates with secondary education to take the examination of practicing pharmacists, and the difficulty of this year's examination has not decreased, especially the difficulty of practicing Chinese pharmacists is higher than the previous five years.
indicates that the entry threshold for practicing pharmacists is beginning to rise.
the main reason is that the number of professional qualification certificates for practicing pharmacists is already relatively sufficient, and future examinations will pay more and more attention to attracting people with real practice thinking and ability to practice to the ranks of practicing pharmacists.
, by increasing the difficulty of the examination, the gold content of the professional qualification certificate of a practicing pharmacist will also be increased, which is conducive to the long-term development of the profession.
, in late November 2020, the State Drug Administration issued a Notice on Regulating the Use of Practicing Pharmacists in Drug Retail Enterprises. The
document states, "In view of the fact that there are not enough practicing pharmacists in some areas at present and it is difficult to equip them, the provincial drug regulatory departments may, without reducing the overall proportion of existing practicing pharmacists, formulate policies for the implementation of differentiated use of licensed pharmacists and set up a transition period."
the transition period, pharmaceutical retail enterprises are allowed to equip other pharmaceutical technicians to assume the duties of practicing pharmacists in areas where there is a significant gap in practicing pharmacists, and the transition period does not exceed 2025."
fact, before the release of the document, the differential staffing of licensed pharmacists had been introduced in many provinces.
example, the city of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province requires practicing Western pharmacists, practicing Chinese pharmacists to manage separately, practicing Western pharmacists can not manage Chinese medicine, practicing Chinese pharmacists can not manage Western medicine.
, Guangzhou city has raised the requirements for the staffing of practicing pharmacists.
It is estimated that the future medical security department will also require practicing Western pharmacists, practicing Chinese pharmacists to fully divide the division of labor, in order to become a fixed-point pharmacy for medical insurance, in order to pay with the medical insurance fund, because only in this way, to ensure reasonable drug use, to ensure the safety of the medical insurance fund.
with the liberalization of the policy on the sale of prescription drugs in online pharmacies, the staffing of future prescription reviews is also critical.
the Administrative Licensing Act and related laws, posts concerned with the health and safety of human life should be subject to administrative permits.
under the current pharmacist system, only practicing pharmacists obtain a Practising Pharmacist Registration Certificate with administrative permission.
, however, the same pharmacy online pharmacy, offline pharmacy count several practice units? Only by allowing practicing pharmacists to practice more can this contradiction be straightened out.
, the differentiated staffing of practicing pharmacists faces many new problems.
, however, the general trend in the provision of licensed pharmacists has evolved from the mandatory provision of drug regulatory departments to the medical security department to stimulate the provision and purchase of pharmaceutical services for practicing pharmacists.
the strengthening of professional services capacity-building medical security departments are not currently buying social pharmacy services, mainly because the working environment of practicing pharmacists is too commercial, the work of practicing pharmacists should also revolve around profits.
For example, a practicing pharmacist once complained to the author: "I have also worked hard for the people, those patients often come back to me for drug consultation, when my store compared the next door business, it can be seen that people still like professional services."
, however, after a hard time, the boss suddenly engaged in what food package, those who have good sticky customers after being listed as the promotion of the package crowd.
this not only combats the enthusiasm of pharmaceutical service personnel, but also makes patients lose trust.
them to ask me, that food package is good, how to reply? It's really a dilemma for me.
" means that pharmaceutical services by licensed pharmacists can create value for pharmacy owners, but in the short term, less profit is created than in the promotion of pharmaceuticals and health foods, resulting in pharmacy operators supporting more salesmen with greater marketing capabilities than pharmaceutical service providers.
, but will this continue? With the centralized procurement of national drugs, the national drug negotiations, drug prices continue to decline, drug profits will be lower and lower.
same time, medicare-targeted pharmacies will not allow individual accounts to pay for health food, and even Medicare-targeted pharmacies will not allow the sale of health food.
, where does the profit come from? There is no doubt that only pharmacy services are available to pharmacists.
Since there are not many practicing pharmacists and many fewer practicing pharmacists when pharmacies are being marketed, why not let the practicing pharmacists carry out pharmacy services to create another opportunity for the future development of pharmacies? In July 2020, the State Administration of Medical Security issued article 23 of the Interim Measures for the Administration of Drug Use in Basic Medical Insurance, which stipulates that "the costs of using the drugs contained in the Drug Catalog may be paid by the Basic Medical Insurance Fund" "after examination by a pharmacist or practicing pharmacist in accordance with the prescribed procedures".
future, medical insurance fixed-point pharmacies using the basic medical insurance fund to pay, all need to be reviewed by a practicing pharmacist, in order to have legitimacy.
, it can be seen that practicing pharmacists urgently need to improve the professional ability of pharmaceutical services to meet the ability requirements of the National Health Insurance Administration prescription audit, in order to enter the development stage of medical insurance purchase pharmaceutical services.
Conclusion 2020 the entry threshold for practicing pharmacists has been raised, the quality of personnel has been improved, staffing has begun to shift to more refined and differentiated equipment, especially the incentive effect of medical insurance funds will become more and more obvious, and the key for practicing pharmacists to seize the historical opportunity of medical insurance to purchase pharmaceutical services is to have a strong pharmaceutical professional service capacity, which is the key node that needs to be built.