The family doctor or the pediatrician? You choose it in pharmacy. And all the types of vaccines contained in the vaccination plan and reserved for over 12s will also be available in pharmacies and diagnostic tests will also be available – for example to combat antibiotic resistance – as well as there will be space for telemedicine.
INSIGHTS
The new Simplifications Bill – arriving on the table of the Council of Ministers – puts on the table some important innovations for pharmacies.
Which are “transformed” into a service pharmacy (complete with an ad hoc sign to indicate that they offer “plus” services.
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The service pharmacy
The rule modifies what is contained in Legislative Decree 153/2019 – as reported by Quotidianosanità – and also provides for pharmacies to dispense drugs and medical devices necessary for the treatment of patients in home, residential and semi-residential care on behalf of healthcare facilities.
The vaccines
Vaccine front. Today you can get flu shots and anti-Covid shots for adults. The draft provides that it will be possible to administer vaccines identified by the National Prevention Plan at pharmacies, by appropriately trained pharmacists following the completion of a specific qualifying course and subsequent annual updates, organized by the Higher Institute of Health. vaccination for subjects aged no less than twelve years, as well as the carrying out of diagnostic tests which involve the collection of the biological sample at nasal, salivary or oropharyngeal level, to be carried out in areas, rooms or structures, including external ones, equipped with suitable suitable from a hygienic-sanitary point of view and capable of guaranteeing the protection of confidentiality. The areas, rooms or structures outside the pharmacy must be included in the pharmaceutical district envisaged in the organic plan pertaining to the pharmacy itself”.
The permissions
The local health authorities will authorize the structures that will have to comply with the hygienic-sanitary suitability requirements of the premises and will verify «that the latter fall within the scope of the pertinent pharmaceutical site envisaged in the organic plan and that they are located at a distance of no less than two hundred meters from other pharmacies and from the premises where the health services pertaining to other pharmacies are carried out. The distance is measured for the shortest pedestrian route between threshold and threshold,” the draft reports.
The sign
To ensure that “customers” can identify the pharmacies where additional services are available, «the pharmacy owners place on the premises themselves, in addition to the green cross identifying the pharmacy, a sign bearing the name «Services pharmacy» and provide suitable information on the exact identification of the pharmacy owners who offer the services”.
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2024-03-07 20:47:01
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