Drugstores can sell drugs for long periods of time with the first prescription

10 provinces issued a message to liberalize the sale of prescription drugs in pharmacies, for long-term stable use of prescription drugs for chronically ill patients, prescriptions only once, pharmacies can sell drugs for a long time.

can sell drugs for a long time with the firstOn December 3, the Shaanxi Provincial Drug Administration issued the Opinions on Promoting the Rapid Development of the Drug Distribution Industry (hereinafter referred to as the Opinions) and put forward nine measures to promote the rapid development of the drug distribution industry.Among them, "New model of innovative drug services" in item 8 of the Opinion clearly states that "for the sale of prescription drugs for chronic diseases requiring long-term use of fixed drug control and treatment, retail pharmacies may establish patient files, record patient past medications, information on the purchase of medicines and buyer details, and then sell medicines (excluding special drugs) on the basis of the first retained prescription, and pharmacies may update the retention files every six months or in accordance with changes in patient prescriptions, and keep a complete account of the sales desk."According to the above requirements, this also means that for patients with chronic diseases who have been using fixed drugs for a long time to control and treat, pharmacies can sell the prescription drugs that the patient needs for a long time as long as they retain prescription information for the first time.

10 provinces to liberalize the sale of prescription drugs in pharmaciesUniquely, just the day before, Anhui Provincial Drug Administration issued "to promote the healthy development of pharmaceutical retail (chain) enterprises specific measures" clearly, to support drug retail enterprises to facilitate services for patients with chronic diseases. Conditional can establish health records for chronically ill patients, reduce the number of frequent hospital visits by chronically ill patients, and facilitate services for chronically ill patients in many ways.Moreover, the initiative also said, "Drug retail enterprises can take copying, scanning, photographing and other ways to retain the prescription (medical records) of chronically ill patients, later purchase the same drug, can no longer require the production of prescriptions, purchase no more than the original prescription (medical records) of the amount, such as the purchase of prescription drugs changes, patients should be required to re-provide medical institutions physician prescriptions, special management drugs must be sold in accordance with the provisions."In addition, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Drug Administration recently issued a similar measure, the measure, item 9 of the "implementation of chronically ill patients file management" mentioned that drug retail enterprises should establish a chronically ill patient prescription retention purchase and file management system to facilitate services for chronically ill patients.For the first time, a chronically ill patient buys prescription drugs by prescription, and the practicing pharmacist establishes a file for the chronically ill patient by using the patient's prescription, diagnostic certificate, etc., and purchases prescription drugs of the same drug regulation from the pharmacy under the same chain brand during the adjustment period (up to a maximum of not more than six months) for the file patients, without prescription, according to the records of the file, but the frequency and quantity of sales shall not exceed the amount of the original prescription.When the variety of prescription drugs purchased by a patient changes, a medical practitioner or a practicing assistant physician shall be provided with a re-prescription based on the change in the patient's condition. Special drugs must be sold in accordance with laws and regulations.In fact, the initiative is not only the above three provinces, Cypress Blue - pharmacy manager combing found that, so far, there are seven provincial administrative districts clearly stated that retail pharmacies for chronically ill patients file management, can be based on the first retained prescription to sell prescription drugs. Specifically as follows: 3 big good, Shaanxi Province retail pharmacies please takeIn addition, the "Opinion" put forward more than this good news, for example, "Opinion" the first "adjustment of drug operation approval mechanism" pointed out that drug retail stores According to the need, the comprehensive report of drug business license, medical device business license declaration materials, by the district city or provincial direct management county-level drug regulatory departments to accept and form a joint inspection team to complete the on-site inspection work, inspection of qualified unified certification and delivery to enterprises, the document processing time does not exceed the shortest of the legal processing time for documents.Regarding the effective integration of storage resources in retail pharmacies, the Opinion mentions that retail chains can distribute drugs centrally and uniformly within the province without regional restrictions. Chain headquarters may entrust drug wholesale enterprises to distribute drugs across regions. Retail chain enterprises in the province across the region to set up retail chain divisions, can set up a separate warehouse.At the same time, for the credit rating of A-rated drug retail chain enterprises, but also in the supermarket set up counters or in large public places set up 24-hour vending machines to sell Class B over-the-counter drugs, convenient for consumers to buy drugs.
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Cypress Blue - Pharmacy Manager
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