There is also a "tightening" of company gadgets for doctors
Medicines: sale without prescription in urgent cases
The Council of Ministers has approved a legislative decree which provides for this possibility. Precise conditions to be determined
Medicines: sale without prescription in urgent cases
The Council of Ministers has approved a legislative decree which provides for this possibility. Precise conditions to be determined
ROME - Yes to the sale of prescription drugs without showing the prescription, but only in urgent cases. This morning the Council of Ministers approved the legislative decree of the Minister of Health Livia Turco which, explains a note from the Lungotevere Ripa ministry, "updates the current legislation on medicines for human use, defined last year with the legislative decree 24 April 2006, no. 219".
BY THE END OF 2007 - The decree establishes that the Minister of Health, with his own decree to be adopted by 31 December 2007, having consulted the Orders of doctors and pharmacists, identifies the conditions to allow the pharmacist, in case of extreme necessity and urgency , to supply even in the absence of a medical prescription a medicinal product subject to simple prescription or to be renewed each time. "This provision - the note specifies - does not intend to alter the current distinction of responsibilities between doctors and pharmacists, but only to meet the needs of patients, in cases of extraordinary urgency, when it is impossible for them to obtain a prescription".
«CLOSE» TO GADGETS FOR DOCTORS – Other measures are also specified in the text, including greater control over the trials of vending machines for medicines, more skills and responsibilities for the pharmacists of the new points of sale and a squeeze on the gadgets of pharmaceutical companies for doctors. «The new intervention – says the Ministry of Health – was necessary for various reasons. To adjust some provisions to the recent innovations in the field of public sale of medicines and wholesale distribution of medicines, introduced by the so-called "Bersanì decree" of last July. But also to put an end to some Community infringement procedures in the medicines sector and resolve some issues that emerged in the first months of application of Legislative Decree 219/2006".
July 13, 2007
Source "Corriere della Sera.it" Health "
BY THE END OF 2007 - The decree establishes that the Minister of Health, with his own decree to be adopted by 31 December 2007, having consulted the Orders of doctors and pharmacists, identifies the conditions to allow the pharmacist, in case of extreme necessity and urgency , to supply even in the absence of a medical prescription a medicinal product subject to simple prescription or to be renewed each time. "This provision - the note specifies - does not intend to alter the current distinction of responsibilities between doctors and pharmacists, but only to meet the needs of patients, in cases of extraordinary urgency, when it is impossible for them to obtain a prescription".
«CLOSE» TO GADGETS FOR DOCTORS – Other measures are also specified in the text, including greater control over the trials of vending machines for medicines, more skills and responsibilities for the pharmacists of the new points of sale and a squeeze on the gadgets of pharmaceutical companies for doctors. «The new intervention – says the Ministry of Health – was necessary for various reasons. To adjust some provisions to the recent innovations in the field of public sale of medicines and wholesale distribution of medicines, introduced by the so-called "Bersanì decree" of last July. But also to put an end to some Community infringement procedures in the medicines sector and resolve some issues that emerged in the first months of application of Legislative Decree 219/2006".
July 13, 2007
Source "Corriere della Sera.it" Health "
