1, crack down on practicing pharmacists hanging license
Since the CCTV 3.15 evening party exposure of practicing pharmacists "hanging license", sales of prescription drugs without prescription and other issues, in order to make grass-roots supervision have a legal basis, the State Drug Administration in the release of the "practicing pharmacists hanging license
The State Pharmaceutical Administration issued the "Regulations on the Professional Qualification System for Licensed Pharmacists" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") after the issuance of the "Rectification Notice" to determine the penalties in the legislation.
In which, the "Provisions" Article 13, Article 26, Article 28, etc. clearly define the penalties for illegal behavior of practicing pharmacists and practice units:
Article 13, the applicant for registration, must have the following conditions at the same time:
1, to obtain the "professional qualification certificate of practicing pharmacists";
2, abide by the law, abide by the practicing pharmacist Professional ethics, no adverse information records;
3, physical health, can adhere to work in the licensed pharmacist position;
4, by the unit assessment agreed.
Article 26, the failure to comply with the provisions of the unit equipped with licensed pharmacists, by the location of the county level above the department responsible for drug supervision and management ordered to be equipped with a limited period of time, and in accordance with the relevant laws and regulations to impose penalties.
Article 28 by deception, bribery and other improper means to obtain the "practicing pharmacist registration certificate", by the licensing department to revoke the "practicing pharmacist registration certificate", within three years will not be registered as a practicing pharmacist; constitutes a crime, shall be investigated for criminal responsibility.
2. Licensed pharmacist title evaluation successive implementation
March 20 this year, the State Drug Administration and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security jointly issued the "licensed pharmacist professional qualification system," pointed out that "professional and technical personnel to obtain the professional qualifications of licensed pharmacists, can be recognized as having a pharmacist in charge of pharmacists or pharmacist in charge of the title, and can be used as a condition for declaring higher titles. be used as a condition for declaring a higher-level title."
In order to improve the whole system system, and the national licensed pharmacist examination professional qualification system effective convergence, followed by the Guangdong Provincial Drug Administration specifically formulated the "on the Guangdong Province, the pharmaceutical industry professional and technical personnel title evaluation reform of the implementation of the program", and pointed out to establish the province of the pharmaceutical industry, the professional title and the national licensed pharmacist professional qualification corresponds to the relationship. Pharmaceutical industry professional and technical personnel to obtain licensed pharmacist (licensed Chinese pharmacist) qualification, can be recognized as having a competent pharmacist (competent Chinese pharmacist) title, as a condition for declaring a higher level of title.
3. Multi-point practice of licensed pharmacists becomes a reality
On May 24 this year, the Shaanxi Provincial Drug Administration issued the "Notice on Strengthening the Management of Licensed Pharmacists in Drug Retail Enterprises", pointing out that licensed pharmacists and pharmacists are encouraged to utilize holidays and spare time for multi-point practice in drug retail enterprises as a supplement to the absence of the licensed pharmacist in the store. Drug retail stores to establish multi-point practice personnel files and management system, and in the local market bureau for the record, its continuing education by the local market supervision bureau organization and implementation.
4, the pharmacy will liberalize the sale of prescription drugs
In the context of the national drug retailers to rectify the background of all retail pharmacies are faced with two major problems, the first pharmacist on duty, the second prescription drugs sold on prescription. From the existing conditions, to all drug retail enterprises in accordance with the national requirements of pharmacists and all prescription drugs are sold on prescription, the answer is yes, simply impossible. Therefore, Guangdong, Shandong, Chongqing, Shaanxi and other provinces and cities have issued a document to encourage retail pharmacies to establish a chronic disease patient file management system.
Not only that, the National Health Commission has also twice proposed to establish long-term prescription standards and norms for chronic diseases. From the National Health Commission issued a letter, chronic disease long-term prescription management system is also stepping up the development, once introduced, the national pharmacy will usher in favorable.
5, remote review of the full spread
Remote review of the original transition policy to ease the shortage of licensed pharmacists, but with the State Pharmaceutical Administration of the order, remote review of the complete fire, remote review of the prescription by assisting pharmacies to undertake the outflow of prescriptions and alleviate the shortage of licensed pharmacists in the urgent need to take advantage of 3.15 on the hot spot after the end of April this year alone, there are Hunan, Shandong, Shanxi, Heilongjiang four provinces issued a document to implement the remote review of prescriptions.
Not only that, in November last year, the Ministry of Commerce issued the "national retail pharmacy classification and grading management guidance (draft)" pointed out that the three types of pharmacies need to be equipped with at least two licensed pharmacists, but the implementation of online centralized review of the prescription of the drug retail chain stores can be considered to be equipped with a licensed pharmacist. Visible, there has been a shift in policy, chain stores in advance of the layout is more favorable.
6, a large number of non-pharmacy layout to sell drugs
Since Beijing issued a pilot in the chain of convenience stores, such as Category B non-prescription drugs sales services, the Beijing market, a big change in the day, up to now, Watson's, Wumi, Suning, Jingkelong, Sinopec and a number of large chain of non-pharmacy layout of the drug retail business, to further accelerate the transformation of the drug retail industry, more convenient non-pharmacy will come.
7, pharmacy band purchasing or spread
May 15, Shandong Provincial Medical Protection Bureau and other four departments and units jointly issued the "on the private pharmaceutical institutions on a trial basis on-line drug centralized purchasing opinions," pointed out that the health insurance agreement to manage the private health care institutions, retail pharmacy chains (hereinafter referred to as the agreement on the pharmaceutical institutions), you can through the Shandong Province, centralized purchasing platform for drug procurement of medicines online.
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Not coincidentally, a week later, Zhejiang Province, the drug procurement platform issued "on the province's pharmaceutical chain pharmacy group to open the Zhejiang Province, the drug procurement platform procurement authority notice of the matter" also pointed out that Yingtai Yi Nian, Huadong Pharmacy, the State Control Pharmacy, Xin Yi Pharmacy, Yun Kai Yamei Pharmacy, Jiuzhou Pharmacy and other six province-wide pharmaceutical chain pharmacy group can be in the Zhejiang Province, the drug procurement platform Apply for a procurement account, and open the drug procurement platform online drug procurement authority.
While at this stage only Shandong and Zhejiang provinces have liberalized the pharmacy collective purchasing authority, in January 2019, the state launched the "4+7" drug centralized band purchasing pilot policy so far, has achieved obvious results, with the continuous provinces and cities to follow up the "4+7
8, out-of-hospital pharmacy competition is getting stronger
Since the hospital drug ratio, drug zero-plus, centralized purchasing of drugs and other factors, coupled with the pharmacy hosting fall, some drugs, especially high-priced medicines, imported medicines began to seek out of the hospital market, which makes the hospital around the pharmacy has become a hot commodity. With the acceleration of prescription outflow, the relevant flow platform ushered in the opportunity, the pharmacy, especially around the hospital pharmacy will become the main receiver.
In the current market-oriented, large chain drugstores with a variety of varieties, strong capital and other advantages, will be in the battle for the first opportunity, the distance from the hospital will become an important consideration for the merger and acquisition of drugstores. (This paragraph quotes the medical cell phone newspaper, the author of the three ear view)
9, the wisdom of the regulatory era
April 28 this year, the State Drug Administration issued a notice to continue to promote the construction of drug information traceability system, and released the "Drug Information Traceability System Construction Guidelines" and "Drug Traceability Code Coding Requirements," the two information technology standards. Once the drug traceability system is implemented, one object, one code, object code with tracing, supervision and inspection will be more efficient and convenient.
On May 24 of the same year, the State Drug Administration also issued a notice of "action plan to accelerate the promotion of intelligent supervision of medicines," and pointed out that by 2020, the establishment of the development trend of information technology in line with the development of information technology in the construction of information technology for the supervision of medicines and the application of the framework. On this basis, after another 3-5 years, to promote the deep integration of information technology and regulatory work, the formation of "strict control" plus "skillful management" of the new regulatory situation.
10, a number of drugstore prospects
Recently, Shandong Province, the pharmacy circle ushered in the history of the most stringent checks, according to incomplete statistics, just in May, Jinan, Shandong Province, Heze, Zaozhuang, Weifang, Weihai, Tai'an, Yantai, Binzhou, Linyi, Jining, 10 cities is 62 pharmacies GSP certificate was withdrawn, was withdrawn.
Not only that, pharmacy manager combed through found that, up to now, there have been Shandong, Heilongjiang, Shanghai, Beijing, Gansu, Henan, Shanxi, Ningxia, Jiangxi and other 9 provinces and municipalities of the Drug Administration issued a document, full coverage inspection of pharmaceutical retail enterprises. Under strict inspection, it is inevitable that pharmacies will not be able to eat.
At the same time, as the country promotes the administrative approval reform of "put in place" and optimize the approval process, the pharmacy has shown explosive growth in the last year, and the current licensed pharmacy is as high as 490,000, according to the CMH monitoring data of Zhongkang, the overall size of the national retail terminal market in the fiscal year of 2018 has reached 384.2 billion yuan, an increase of just 4.85%, the lowest level in nearly 20 years.
It can be seen that the cake in the drug retail market is limited. Before finding a breakthrough, blindly increasing the number of stores will only increase the pressure of competition.
And the pros and cons **** exist for practicing pharmacists, an opportunity and a challenge. The small partners who have already taken the licensed pharmacist qualification should also pay attention to the accumulation of experience in their daily work to improve their own strength. The small partners who are preparing for the licensed pharmacist qualification should also seize the time to review, and strive to obtain the certificate as soon as possible to enhance their competitiveness!