News About: Pharm. Affairs
Proposal for Wearing Pharmacist ID Card Intensifies After Adoption of Separation System
The movement advocating the wearing of pharmacist ID card, which aims to increase public and patient's confidence, is expanding.
The proposal intends to give patients visiting pharmacies confidence in the pharmacis...
KOMA calls for legislation of separate oriental medical law.
The Korea Oriental Medical Association (KOMA) strongly urged the government to make new legislation of the oriental medical law in separation to the current medical and pharmaceutical affairs law for the oriental medi...
Supplement foods for climacteric grew popular in pharmacies.
Along with ever growing number of climacteric patients many health supplement foods formulated with bean's isoflavonoids became very popular especially for climacteric women in the retail pharmacy market.
Since th...
Frequent Change of Prescription Medicine Causes Difficulty In Handling Stocks
It was learned that changing of prescription medicine continues at the clinic level in medical institutions.
According to the Community Pharmacy Circle, pharmacies are having difficulty handling pharmaceutical stock...
Health supplement product selling prices all varied.
Chitosan, one of the popular health supplement products, showed its selling price in big variance by different sales channels, ranging 2 to 4 times higher at a door to door call sale than pharmacies.
Korea Consumer...
Pharmacy to reject prescription filling when diminishing rate system enforced.
The retail pharmacy community expressed a harsh backlash against the government so called "Diminishing rate system" applying to the drug administration fees (that so far accounted number of days for dispensing medicat...
No Nominal Cooperation! Substantial Coalitions Activated
In the wake of the increasing trend toward strategic cooperation between companies substantial coalitions are emerging lately which cooperate in the form of outsourcing for concrete business.
According to an indus...
Diminishing fee rate may destroy pharmacy management basement.
The diminishing rate system applying to the drug administration fees will kill retail pharmacies located in near-hospitals. mainly engaging in prescription fill business for a long period of dispensing medication.
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Hospital pharmacists call for in-hospital dispensing charge.
The Korea Society of Hospital Pharmacy strongly urged to the government on Oct. 19 that the in-hospital dispensing fees shall be charged for patients falling under the non-medical and pharmacy role separation program,...
Revival of In-hospital Dispensation Charge
The Korean Society of Health-System Pharmacists (KSHP) has decided to accept the fixed plan of in-hospital dispensation change proposed by the government.
The plan will revive the in-hospital dispensation charge t...
