News About: Goverment
Provisional control on daily number of prescription filling under consideration.
To prevent medical institutes and pharmacies from their business collusion the government may put a new restrictive clause to the revised pharmaceutical affairs law, regulating a daily upper limit of dispensing cases ...
Prescription drug list under serious consideration to legislate.
The MOHW plans to draft the revised bill of the pharmaceutical affairs law reflecting 1) the prohibition of pharmacist's substitutive dispensing, 2) the most common prescription drug lists and 3) the prohibition of bu...
Supervisory Team to prosecute massive unlawful practices
Many unlawful medical and pharmacy practices have been detected by the government surveillance campaign to check the implementation of the current medical reform program, which included a business collusion between me...
Legislation move for supervising guideline of pharmacist's free dispensing in trouble.
As a follow-up measure of the 3 way talks of the government, the medical and the pharmacy representatives, the MOHW and the KPA continued to negotiate for supplement of the agreed points on Nov. 11 at the 3 way talks....
Revised bill of pharmaceutical affairs law likely to present to National Assembly early next week.
The medical community officially accepted the compromised issues agreed in the 3 way talks of the government, the medical and the pharmacy representatives, and therefore the revised bill of pharmaceutical affairs law ...
Antibiotics to be reclassified for resistance preventing sake
Mr. Kim Young-chan, the 4th grade KFDA official, said in the conference of the Korea Society of Infections held at Catholic Medical School on Nov. 24 that antibiotics should be reclassified in order to protect patient...
Overtime additional charge rate to apply by prescription arrival time.
The KPA circulated the official information letter to each city and province KPA branch that the overtime additional charges for medication counselling and dispensing technical fees shall be accounted by the arrival t...
MOHW under preparing revised bill of pharmaceutical affairs law.
Assuming that compromised issues closely agreed between the medical and the pharmacy communities over the government's new medical reform plan be finally accepted by both sides, the MOHW moved a speed step to draft th...
Revised bill likely to pass through National Assembly around Dec. 9.
The Health and Welfare Committee of the National Assembly is going to present the revised bill of the pharmaceutical affairs law to the plenary session of the National Assembly as a Health and Welfare Committee's bill...
Government and KPA to discuss follow-up programs.
After the 3 way talks among the government, the medical and the pharmacy representatives, the KPA is now going to discuss the follow-up measures with the MOHW from Nov. 13, including the issue over the business collus...
