News About: Pharm. Affairs
Exceptional regions for separated medical and pharmacy practices decreased.
Quite a number of exceptional regions for the separated medical and pharmacy practices has been declined.
The MOHW announced to revise "Regulations of appointing an exceptional region for the separated medical and...
Dispensing fees in 3Q of 2006 highest at 9.560KW in Busan.
The pharmacy revenue from dispensing fees was the top in Busan area during the 3rd quarter this year among all cities and provinces across the nation. Choongbuk was the lowest, and average monthly pharmacy revenue fro...
Pharmacy's monthly dispensing charges up 820,000 won in 3Q
The monthly average dispensing charge (deducting drug costs) per pharmacy reached 8.7 million won in the third quarter of this year, up 820,000 won compared with the same period last year thanks to more coverage of na...
Pharmacy urged to preserve drug invoices
The Health Insurance Review Agency (HIRA) has called for all proprietors of pharmacy nationwide to keep their evidencing documents involved in the purchase of all drugs for five years from the date of transaction with...
Pharmacy college must prepare individualized medical era.
The pharmacy education in 21th century under the 6 year pharmacy school system should focus on fostering the well qualified pharmacists who should satisfy the individualized medical needs beyond the current pharmacist...
Statistics on daily prescriptions of pharmacies analyzed
The gap of daily prescriptions between pharmacies neighboring at hospitals and community pharmacies has been widening since the implementation of SDP (separation of drug dispensing from medical practice) in 2001...
Government seeks to tighten protection of personal medical information
The government plans to legislate a proposed bill within this year to strengthen its effort on protection and security of personal information, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare.
To that end, a specif...
KPA presidential election campaign by 3 different races.
In the presidential election campaign for the chief executive of the Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) 3 candidates have focused commonly on the key pledges of recovering the pharmacy power and of activating the ...
Pharmacy dispenses daily 58 prescriptions on average
The average 58 prescriptions are being handled daily per pharmacy.
According to a survey of 1,066 pharmacies nationwide by Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) from January 2001 to December 2005, about 18.5 perc...
62.5% of voters yet to decide KPA president.
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) president election has one month to go and now it shows that about 60% of voters have not decided to elect the new president.
According to Yakup Press surveyed with MMG fr...
