A large number of store managers don't need licensed pharmacists

Source: sepiland - pharmacy Manager ▍ arrangement: Xiyu It is no longer emphasized that the person in charge of a store should be a licensed pharmacist For example, the person in charge of all stores in Hubei chain only uses one person; Anhui and Xinjiang do not directly use licensed pharmacists Recently, Hubei Provincial Food and Drug Administration issued the notice on regulating the supervision and management of business license of drug retail chain enterprises (Draft for comments) (hereinafter referred to as the notice) According to the notice, for newly established drug retail chain enterprises, the headquarters may designate a manager with the qualification of licensed pharmacist to be the enterprise head of the subordinate stores, or the licensed pharmacist registered in the subordinate stores may be the head of the store According to the notice, it also means that all chain stores do not need to have a licensed pharmacist as the person in charge of each store, just one licensed pharmacist In addition, for the subordinate stores operating prescription drugs, the notice requires that, in addition to the person in charge must be a licensed pharmacist, at least one licensed pharmacist shall be equipped to manage and provide pharmaceutical services in the store The subordinate stores with the business scope of Chinese herbal pieces shall also be equipped with a licensed pharmacist of Chinese herbal medicine or a qualified technical personnel of Chinese herbal medicine (including those with a secondary school degree or above in Chinese pharmaceutical major) to be responsible for the management of the examination Party (except those who only deal in the finalized packaging of Chinese herbal medicine, Chinese herbal pieces or pieces of the same origin) In fact, Hubei Province is not the only province that has issued similar policies Different from this, Hubei Province still needs one licensed pharmacist as the head of all stores, while other provinces and regions directly do not need licensed pharmacists On December 2, the specific measures for promoting the healthy development of drug retail (chain) enterprises issued by Anhui Provincial Food and drug administration proposed that the legal representative and main person in charge of the headquarters of drug retail chain enterprises must be legally responsible for the drug business activities of their stores, and no longer require that the person in charge of the stores of chain enterprises must be a licensed pharmacist Coincidentally, last month, the opinions on promoting the healthy development of drug retail enterprises (Trial) issued by Xinjiang food and drug administration also mentioned that the chain stores applying for remote examination can no longer be equipped with licensed pharmacists, and each store should be equipped with at least one pharmacist or above qualified pharmacists as the quality director According to the policies of Anhui and Xinjiang, this also indicates that the person in charge of chain stores should not be a licensed pharmacist At the same time, the notice also provides a new possibility to encourage and support the drug retail chain enterprises that have achieved "six unified management" to build their own systems or rely on the third-party platform to carry out the centralized remote electronic examination of licensed pharmacists and provide reasonable medication guidance and other pharmaceutical services For the implementation of centralized remote examination and drug service provided by the chain headquarters, the subordinate stores with less than 20 stores shall be equipped with more than 3 licensed pharmacists, and those less than 20 stores shall be calculated as 20 stores On this basis, one licensed pharmacist shall be added for every 20 additional stores If a store operates Chinese herbal pieces, the number of licensed Chinese pharmacists in remote examination shall not be less than 1 / 3 of the total number of licensed pharmacists However, it should be noted that the notice specially emphasizes that the remote reviewer can not replace the on-the-job service of the licensed pharmacist, and can be used as a supplementary means for the temporary off-the-job service of the licensed pharmacist In addition, in addition to the advantages, in terms of supervision, Hubei Province also put forward regulations The notice requires that the municipal and county market supervision and administration departments should carry out supervision and inspection, result disposal and administrative punishment on the subordinate stores of drug retail chain enterprises in accordance with the law Focus on the following illegal acts: 1 Do not install the computer system unified with the headquarters of chain enterprises, and do not implement unified quality management; 2 Do not purchase drugs from chain enterprises or purchase drugs from unknown sources; 3 Not equipped with quality management and prescription audit personnel meeting the corresponding qualification requirements; not equipped with necessary cool and cold storage equipment; 4 Failing to store the drugs according to the storage conditions and requirements; failing to register and sell the prescription drugs according to the prescriptions and regulations; 5 Mix drugs and non drugs, publicize non drugs according to drugs, and sell non drugs like killing products as drugs; 6 Illegal sales of vaccines, compound preparations containing ephedrine, compound preparations containing codeine phosphate, drugs for termination of pregnancy, drug precursor chemicals, class I and class II psychotropic drugs, refrigerated and frozen drugs and other drugs with special management requirements; 7 Selling expired and invalid drugs; 8 To engage in the trading of drugs beyond the scope of refrigerated and frozen drugs without the permission of refrigerated and frozen drugs;