The operation of Chinese medicine pieces can not be equipped with practicing Chinese medicine practitioners There is a new standard for opening a pharmacy!

Recently, the Heilongjiang Provincial Drug Administration issued the "Heilongjiang Province Pharmaceutical Retail Chain Enterprise Establishment Acceptance Standards (Trial)" and "Heilongjiang Province Pharmaceutical Retail Enterprise Establishment Acceptance Standards (Trial)", which are applicable to the issuance, replacement, change and supervision of the "Drug Business License" of pharmaceutical retail enterprises in the administrative region of Heilongjiang Province, including the chain stores of pharmaceutical retail chain enterprises
.

 

In the case of Heilongjiang Provincial Food and Drug Administration, the issuance of the new standard takes into account the interests of Heilongjiang Province's unbalanced urban and rural development, uneven industry development, differentiated needs of the public for drugs, and the operability of retail license acceptance, so the Provincial Food and Drug Administration innovates policies and measures to encourage and support the high-quality development of
the pharmaceutical retail industry.
This also means that more than 20,000 pharmacies in Heilongjiang Province have ushered in new acceptance standards
.

 

01 Dealing in Chinese medicine pieces is not worthy of practicing Chinese medicine pharmacists

 

For pharmacies with different business scopes and scales, the Heilongjiang Provincial Food and Drug Administration has put forward differentiated requirements for the number of licensed pharmacists, pharmacists and other technical personnel, including: at least two licensed pharmacists must be assigned to the chain headquarters as the quality manager and the person in charge of the quality control department, and at the same time, it must meet the requirements
of the "Good Management Practice for Drug Operation" for other staff such as the person in charge of the chain headquarters and the person in charge of the quality control department.

 

If the number of licensed pharmacists in retail pharmacies includes Class A over-the-counter drugs or prescription drugs, at least one licensed pharmacist registered with the store shall be allocated
.

 

Retail pharmacies dealing in Chinese medicine pieces may not be equipped with practicing Chinese medicine practitioners, and if the application scope of business only includes Chinese medicine pieces, they shall be equipped with at least one pharmacy technician (specializing in Chinese medicine
).

 

Those who only deal in Class B over-the-counter drugs shall be equipped with at least one other pharmaceutical technician or relevant business personnel who has passed the assessment organized by the drug regulatory department
.

 

Prescription auditors can perform other job responsibilities, and if the prescription review position needs to perform other job responsibilities, it must also meet the relevant post qualification conditions
.
At the same time, the Heilongjiang Provincial Food and Drug Administration expressed its support for retail pharmacies to carry out the review of remote pharmacists, in accordance with the relevant regulations of the Provincial Food and Drug Administration
.

 

02 This is required to sell non-drugs

 

Area required for the establishment of pharmacies by the Heilongjiang Drug Supervision Commission: Pharmacies shall set up business premises
appropriate to the variety and scale of drugs to be handled.
The building area of pharmaceutical business in the business premises (districted city level and county level) is not less than 40 square meters
.
The above area refers to the continuous area
on the same plane.

 

The area of retail pharmacy business premises below the township level shall be formulated
by the drug regulatory department of the people's government at the municipal (prefecture) level where it is located on the basis of actual local conditions.
The above area refers to the continuous area
on the same plane.
If an enterprise applies to deal only in Class B over-the-counter drugs, the area of its business premises shall be appropriate
to the variety and scale of its business.

 

Pharmacies are primarily places
where medicines are sold.
Where non-drugs are sold, special areas shall be set up in a centralized manner, which shall be clearly separated from the drug area and have a conspicuous goal; To set up pharmaceutical retail enterprises in supermarkets and other commercial places, an independent area with effective partitions shall be set up or effective isolation shall be adopted, and the surrounding environment shall not cause pollution to drugs; Drug sales areas shall be separated
from drug storage, office, living assistance and other areas.

 

For the operation of special drugs, the Heilongjiang Provincial Food and Drug Administration stated that upon approval, the chain stores of pharmaceutical retail chain enterprises that implement unified purchase, unified distribution and unified management can engage in the retail business of Class II psychotropic drugs; Pharmaceutical retail enterprises designated by drug regulatory departments at or above the county level may engage in the retail business of toxic drugs for medical use and poppy husks
.

 

03Heilongjiang pharmacy ushered in new development

 

According to the statistics released by the State Food and Drug Administration for the third quarter of 2021, as of the end of September 2021, Heilongjiang Province had a total of 286 chain enterprises, with a total of 11,232 chain stores and 10,934 single pharmacies, with a chain rate of nearly 50%.

 

On the whole, the pattern of Heilongjiang pharmaceutical retail market presents the characteristics of small, scattered and not strong, Heilongjiang pharmacies are not large, basically small and medium-sized chains, in the leading position is the people Tongtai, but compared with the leader of the developed place of pharmacy, there is still a certain gap
.
Other relatively well-developed small and medium-sized chains, the sales scale is basically about 100 million ~ 200 million yuan, this camp is also the main force
of the current Heilongjiang market.

 

At the same time, the trend of capital going north is becoming more and more obvious, and the Heilongjiang market is expected to enter a new round of integration period, such as Da Shenlin, Shuyu Civilian and other listed chains have been laid out
one after another.
China Resources also takes advantage of DTP pharmacies to continuously improve the professional pharmacy network in the local area, which may be more beneficial
for the Heilongjiang market, which is highly dependent on medical insurance.
At present, the overall impact of foreign capital on the Heilongjiang market is not too great, and there is even a phenomenon of unsatisfactory water and soil, but with the continuous entry and increase of capital in the future, it is bound to have a huge impact
on the local market.

 

Under the influence of centralized procurement, refined development of pharmacies, and intensifying competition, the Heilongjiang pharmacy circle has also begun to look for a new way
out.
At the policy level, the support and openness of the Heilongjiang drug supervision system for pharmacies is not bad, and many policies have come to the forefront of the country, such as the abolition of "distance limit" and the "four-in-one" pharmacy license
.
There is also a "dual-channel" policy, Heilongjiang Medical Insurance Bureau stated in the "Hei Medical Insurance Fa [2018] No.
1" article, "qualified designated retail pharmacies provide insured personnel with dual-channel measures for negotiated drugs to ensure the effective implementation of the policy of including negotiated drugs in the drug list", supporting outpatient special treatment patients to purchase drugs
in designated hospitals and designated retail pharmacies "dual-channel".

 

It is worth mentioning that the two local standards of Heilongjiang Province, organized by the Heilongjiang Provincial Food and Drug Administration and drafted by the Provincial Pharmaceutical Retail Industry Association, have also successfully passed the technical review
of experts recently.

 

With the two standards, as local standards, local pharmacies can be guided to develop
professionally and standardized.
In the process of standard implementation, it can also play a role in the grading and classification of pharmacies in the future, the elimination of bad pharmacies and poor quality pharmacies, so that pharmacies can develop
towards standardization and standardization.