News About: Goverment
KFDA director of Drug Safety Bureau openly to be employed.
The Central Personnel Management Commission (Chief Commission: Mr. Kim Kwang-woong) finally determined the qualification requirements (essential requirements, carrier and performance results) for an open employment of...
Separation model project attempted by medical community not acceptable.
The pharmaceutical community strongly opposed against the model project of the medical and pharmacy separation plan attempted to conduct by the medical circles, claiming it as their conspiracy of collapsing the basic ...
Government separation plan to be launched as scheduled.
Mr. Kim Yoo-bae, the chief Presidential secretary in charge of the welfare and labor clearly stated on March 6 in the meeting of MOHW that a pan-government level of active support would be provided to the government m...
Pharmacy trade name not allowed to quote from medical institutes.
The MOHW is going to put provisional restriction of pharmacy trade name quoted from the medical institutes in close location, viewing that it may give patients an impression of business connection between the pharmacy...
89 Regional Medical and Pharmacy Separation Councils completed to establish.
The MOHW earlier planned to establish so called Regional Medical and Pharmacy Separation Councils (RMPSC) at 243 public health centers across the nation in March, but as of March 4 only 89 councils have been organized...
Drugs classified by 58.3% prescription and 41.7% non-prescription.
The MOHW announced the lst drug classification for 6,329 professional drugs (prescription drugs: 58.3%) and 4,522 general drugs (non-prescription drugs: 41.7%) after due confirmation process through the KFDA, which wa...
Inspection on hospital annexed pharmacies to be intensified.
The MOHW made it clear that the inspection on the hospital annexed pharmacies will be carried out far intensively along with the administrative guidance. The KPA raised an administrative disposition to the MOHW agains...
Fees for prescription and dispensing to increase from July.
The MOHW announced on Feb. 29 that the prescription and dispensing fees would be readjusted to increase in June to take effect from July 1 in order to compensate for the business loss that the medical institutes might...
Realistic dispensing fees supportive to improve pharmacy management.
The MOHW plans to establish a new payment system for insurance medication expenses directly reimbursable to the drug supplier from the insurance agency without getting through the medical institutes where medication w...
Bulk Good Manufacturing Practice system to launch next year.
The MOHW drafted the revised working rules of the pharmaceutical affairs law to launch it from March 2, in which drugs would not be granted to manufacture if infringed other patent rights and the good manufacturing pr...
