News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacy market in troubles with OTC drug price rise.
The retail pharmacy communities encountered a lot of business difficulties caused by the ever rising trends of the reputed OTC drug prises for common cold and pain relief.
Recently many drug companies including "D"...
Discriminate additional charge rate system to help neighbour pharmacies.
It is very likely for the dispensing charges and other 4 NHI payments for the pharmacy where dispense only less than 40 prescriptions a day to apply so called discriminate additional charge rate system.
To reinvigo...
Pharmacy now in great needs of top seller OTC drugs.
After the implementation of the medical and pharmacy role separation program the top seller OTC drugs were no longer available in the pharmacy markets.
Although the OTC drug business attracts keen interests these d...
Standard transaction agreement proves ineffective at pharmacies
The current standard transaction agreement designed to ensure more efficient dealings between pharmaceutical firms and pharmacies, which was revised by the Korea Pharmaceutical Association last December, has actually ...
Pharmacy management transformation at cross road.
The pharmacy faced many difficulties in maintaining current employees including the assistant pharmacists in defiance of the necessity for the management transformation and redundant manpower cutoff caused by ever dec...
"March Crisis" rumour for hospital oriented pharmacies found real.
The pharmacies mainly located near medical institutions ( hereinafter called: hospital oriented pharmacy) and took prescription filling business was worried about so called "March crisis" in their business, which now ...
KPA to submit a list of illegal pharmacies operated by medical institutions
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) recently disclosed it is presumed that 60 pharmacies in eight regions throughout the country (including 20 pharmacies in Seoul) have been directly operated by hospitals and w...
Pharmacists want scrapping of ex post facto reporting after substitute drug dispensing
The current regulation requiring a pharmacy to make ex post facto reporting after substitute drug dispensing should be waivered for more expanded function of pharmacists and stable dispensing right, according to propo...
KPA to caution any illegal selling of prescription drugs at pharmacy
With the sustained and continuous inspections of the Korea Medical Association (KMA)'s monitoring team designed to discover any illegal acts of pharmacies in Seoul, such as selling of prescription drugs without doctor...
60% people admitted their health fair.
58.8% of the total population responded to a survey that their health remained in "Fair" states, but this perception shows a gradual declining trend.
However, the rates of chronic diseases seem to be on the rise ev...
