Here we go! No practicing pharmacists, no health insurance cards, no-sale of prescription drugs and drink tablets

Editor: yuanashleyAlthough the remote adjudicator policy has been in many provinces, to a certain extent to alleviate the problem of the shortage of licensed pharmacists, but pharmacies equipped with licensed pharmacists is still the future of the new needIn the future, without a practicing pharmacist, a large number of pharmacies will ban the use of health insurance cards, while the sale of prescription drugs and Chinese medicine tabletsAccording to Red Star News, in a forum, according to the Sichuan Provincial Drug Administration organs party secretary Zhao Yong introduced, the future of pharmacies whether there are practicing pharmacists, directly decide whether pharmacies can brush health insurance, selling prescription drugs"There are several policies under study on practicing pharmacistsZhao Yong told reporters that at present, some provinces and cities in China have begun to pilot, the practice of pharmacists as a pharmacy to carry out normal drug services an important part, and Sichuan Province is also being formulated, there are currently three main considerations:first, no practicing pharmacists can not be listed as medical insurance fixed-point pharmacies;a large number of pharmacies will ban the sale of prescription drugs and Chinese medicine tabletsSichuan Province is not an exception, as of now, on the pharmacy managers incomplete statistics, to the Ministry of Commerce issued the drugstore classification management policy as the background, has been in Guangdong Province, Shandong Province has introduced local drugstore classification management measures, in the near future, the classification management policy is expected to be implemented throughout the countryand the policies introduced by the Ministry of Commerce, Guangdong Province and Shandong Province, in addition to the drugstore rating to limit the scope of their sales, but also a differencefor the health insurance support policy, in the Ministry of Commerce issued the classification of drugstores management policy mentioned: the priority of high-rated pharmacies to sign health insurance, while Guangdong Province and Shandong Province did not make the relevant instructionsdrugstore professional attributes, can not be lost!With the further deepening of industry reform, the exit mechanism of the pharmacy industry was officially launchedAccording to the previous policy of the Ministry of Commerce on the classification of drugstores classification, by 2020, most provinces and cities in the country, the classification and classification management system of retail pharmacies is basically established, and by 2025, a unified national standard of management of retail pharmacy classification regulations and policies will be basically establishedby then, a group of low-qualified, less professional pharmacies may be able to sell only over-the-counter drugs for a long time, and can not brush the health insurance card for settlement, the past rely on the sale of Chinese medicine tablets and other high-grossing products brought about by the good days may end earlycoupled with the impact of drugstore collection, in the overall reduction of drug prices in the background, the loss of medical insurance resources, ordinary pharmacies choose to transform the large health supermarket, operating a single large health category may be more riskyReference to the convenience store test water sales results, a certain period of time, lost the professional attributes of the drugstore itself, for the traditional pharmacy, the transformation and development, at least for the size of the pharmacy and flexible operation have put forward higher requirements.