The AUSL of Parma has approved the regulation for Scientific Information on Drugs (Resolution 480 of 08/01/2017). In addition to basic medicine and free-choice paediatricians, the Parma Local Health Authority includes the Fidenza Hospital and the Borgotaro Hospital and various other departments.
The regulation specifies that the activity of scientific information is never permitted within the hospitalization wards and specialist outpatient clinics during the times set for visiting patients.
The Directors of the structures will have to identify “the premises to be used for the activities of this regulation, the time slots and booking and/or access methods and notify the Health Department within thirty days of the approval of these provisions"
The booking and/or access procedures must be brought to the attention of the doctors of the structures concerned and published on the Company's website.
To the At the end of each visit, the IFS (editor's note: ISF) must issue a certificate signed indicating:
– name, surname and company
– unique regional code
– date and time of the visit
– doctor/doctors from the Parma Local Health Authority who attended
– reason for visit.
The same certification must also be issued in the case of meetings concerning medical devices, obviously without reporting the unique regional code.
The access certificate must be used for sample checks of registration in the specific IT platform of the Emilia Romagna Region. The attestations cThe completed forms must be delivered by the doctors concerned to the respective Directorates by the tenth day of the following month.
The Managements of the various structures can agree collegial meetings with the ISFs, favoring this method over individual meetings.
For the accesses of the ISF to the practices of GPs and PLS, both located inside the Health Homes and outside, happens at the time established by the doctor himself. This timetable cannot, in any case, overlap with the opening of the study to patients and is communicated, by the doctor concerned, to the competent Local Health Authority.
In order to allow the correct conduct of the meetings, in the affiliated medical offices they will have to apply signs indicating the times and methods of reception of the ISFs. In addition, the following wording must be included in the signs: "Scientific information activities on the drug are not permitted during patient visiting hours”.
The Directors of the Primary Care Departments will proceed to inform the GPs and GPs of the regional provisions, indicating to them the references to communicate the times established by them for the receipt of the ISF.
For complete reading of the Regulation, please refer to the attached original document
Parma AUSL regulation on the scientific information of medicines
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