News About: Pharm. Affairs
Charges for all dispensing activities in hospital needs to be newly established
Rhu Shi-won, a researcher of Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs, emphasized at a recent orientation session for representatives of drug dispensing departments in hospitals the proper compensation system for...
KPA to promote a new standard transaction agreement
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) says the new standard transaction agreement designed to ameliorate a number of unfair transactions will be effected from next month, in a bid to promote more fair transactio...
Hospital relied pharmacies faced management difficulties.
After the launch of the medical and pharmacy role separation system quite a number of pharmacy located near hospitals are suffering from the management difficulties.
According to the retail pharmacy circles, some p...
Aggravating pharmacy management influenced by a shorter treatment days
Pharmaceutical business sources say that many doctors are inclined to avoid their issuances of long-term prescription due to the restrictive measures of treatment days from the National Health Insurance Corporation (N...
Substituted dispensing permitted for proven drug of its equivalent efficacy.
In the region where the regional medical association did not submit the common prescription drug list, the pharmacist is granted to do substituted dispensing without physician's agreement as far as the subst...
Return of stocks to concur among relevant organizations.
In the tripartite meeting at the practical working level of the KPhA, the KPMA and the KPhWA on May 2, they discussed details on the issue of the unused stocks kept idle at retail pharmacies caused by the implement of...
Pharmacy located in higher floors on the rise.
It has been understood since long time that the retail pharmacy used to locate at the ground floor, but this is now changing in which quite a number of new pharmacies are operating at higher floors of the business pre...
KPA in brief response to medical strike
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association has announced April 15th that pharmacies would work overtime by 10 p.m. in order to minimize the upcoming inconvenience of people due to the strike by the medical circles starting...
Signature-collecting campaigns for doctor's prescriptions using generic name eyed
The Seoul-ward chapter of the Korean Pharmaceutical Association says that it will actively promote the indication of the generic name of drug in the doctor's prescription, since the use of generic name is of much help...
Consultation on the pharmacy location up
With the prevailing tendency that the location of pharmacy will be the key for the success of pharmacy management after implementation of a system of separating drug dispensing from medical practice, about 20 real-est...
