Doctors are always responsible for the prescriptions they sign, just then that they ask for certain rules and well-defined skills in terms of equivalents. It is the guiding principle of the position paper on the substitutability of generic drugs that Fimmg anticipated yesterday, the third day of work of the 67th National Congress of the trade union. The document, approved by the central secretariat, is still at draft level and will be brought to the Council on Saturday for the final green light, after the comments and evaluations of the members. In any case, the points on which the text intervenes can already be taken for granted. And among these, the request for an FDA-style "Orange book" which dictates unambiguous guidelines on replaceability is back and the proposal for an overall update of the legislation is coming forward to adapt it to the most recent scientific evidence. "In particular," he explains Robert Venesia, coordinator of the Fimmg drug policy commission and regional secretary of Fimmg Piedmont "we would like the contents of bioequivalence to be reviewed in a dynamic perspective, which seems obvious even if it is not". More generally, the position paper aims to restore depth to the prescriptive act: «A prescription» continues Venesia «is not a simple recipe, but the start of a process based on a therapeutic alliance between doctor and patient. We want clarity to keep this alliance firm in the interest of the patient, because the risk that we end up discussing this issue only bearing in mind the economic dimension must be avoided".
Drugs, companies and trade unions united «Monti thinks back to those useless cuts»
04/10/2012
QN – Il Resto del Carlino
APPEAL LETTER TO THE PREMIER: «HIGH RISK SECTOR»
MILAN. COMPANIES and trade unions sign a letter addressed to Mario Monti. They are asking to repeal outright some recent decrees to contain public spending which do not bring any savings to the NHS and on the other hand bring one of the leading sectors of Made in Italy to its knees. …
