News About: Pharm. Affairs
Pharmacists less cared for advice on drug administration.
Most of pharmacies found to provide less advice services on drug administration for patients despite the fact that the recently revised pharmaceutical affairs act strictly obligated, probably owing to unadequate infor...
Practical Manpower Education Program for Drugstores to Be Developed
The Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) has decided to develop a program related to practical manpower education for drugstores like computerization personnel to prevent damage to drugstores and people in general...
Medical Institute records an 81% supplement rate on pharmacists
It is known that many medical institutions are undergoing a serious manpower problem by having an 81% supplement rate on pharmacists.
Due to the manpower shortage problem, there are concerns that efficient medic...
Four Pharmacy Chain Firms Speed Up Efforts to Establish Joint Logistics System
Four pharmacy chain firms, namely, Onnuri Health, Medipharm, Withpham and Meditel affiliated with each other to set up a joint logistics system.
According to industry sources, the four companies want to launch a ...
Prescription drugs adjusted when pharmacists raising opposition.
Number of prescription drugs determined by the regional medical association can be adjusted if pharmacists raise its problems.
The KPA notified an official letter to all regional pharmacist associations, urging the...
Average Number of Medical Treatment Per Person Was 13 Last Year
One person had an average of 13 medical treatments and 1 out of 14 people had hospitalization treatment for one year last year.
According to the National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC), about 87% of the total ...
Prescription Medicines by Region to Be Adjusted to Around 800 Items
The Korea Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) has released a guide to each level of pharmaceutical associations imploring them to cooperate with doctors to adjust prescription medicines to around 800 items by region in s...
Big variety of wages hampers pharmacist supply and demand.
The pharmacist manpower supply and demand has been seriously unbalanced as a result of infinitive variety of pharmacist's wage system emerged after the implementation of the medical and pharmacy role separation system...
40% of Pharmacies Have Monthly Income Lower Than 1.5 Million Won
A survey revealed that an estimated 40% of all pharmacies in the country have a monthly income of only 1.5 million won.
Proper measures are urgently needed because it was revealed that 92.4% of neighborhood pharmaci...
Dispute Arises in Setting Standard of Centralization Level of Prescriptions
A major controversy has erupted between the Korean Pharmaceutical Association (KPA) and pharmacies over the setting of the standard of centralization level of prescriptions, which was suggested as a means to eliminate...
