News About: Goverment
Self checking data mandatory to submit.
The drug producer must present their own checking data quarterly to the government effective from this year while the KFDA tried to modernize their pharmaceutical supervisory activities by renovating their equipments ...
S. Korea to promote the mutual collaborate with N. Korea in the medical sector
During the 55th WHO general meeting, Minister of Health and Welfare Lee Tae-bok had a luncheon with several WHO officials, so as to tap the possibility of facilitating the mutual cooperation in medical sector between ...
Management of public health and welfare sectors strengthened
The Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) announced it will further promote the public health and welfare sectors through some of its recent reorganization:
- Newly established were two departments; a nurture departm...
Professional review system for propriety of medical bills
To ensure the fairness and propriety of medical bill reviews the government plans adopting so called "Professional Review System"
The HIRA took a seminar at St. Mary hall of Catholic Medical School on May 14 to pre...
Health public service to open for its transparency.
After the launch of the medical and pharmacy role separation system and the national livelihood protection welfare system, the MOHW faced with mounting loads of civil service works, which naturally requires for the go...
Natural crude drugs to permit clinical study after commercial release
To boost a new natural crude drug development, the KFDA is now preparing a draft reflecting the promotional policy and going to announce it in public around the coming May, which contains special privileges with permi...
OECD appraised NHI and medical reform programs.
The OECD evaluated the Korea NHI and current medical reform program and expressed their assessment that the use of expensive drugs after the reform program showed a remarkable increase, causing medical expenditure up ...
PL related safety standards to be reformed
The Korea Food and Administration (KFDA) has announced it will ameliorate a series of drug related safety standards to better cope with the product liability (PL) to be implemented from this July 1.
To this end, a...
Reduction of pharmacy's credit card ratio eyed
The MOHW says that Kookmincard will reduce its member commission rate from this May at the latest. According to its announcement, the current commission rate of hospitals is scheduled to be reduced by 0.25 percentage ...
MOHW is still in dilemma to implement the controversial referential pricing system
Informed sources that the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHUW) has yet to decide the enforcement date of the referential pricing system designed to discourage the prescription of high-priced drugs, due to the effect...
