Doctors are no longer obliged to write on the prescription that the prescribed drug can eventually be replaced with an equivalent alternative. From article 11 of the liberalization decree, currently being examined by the Senate for the first parliamentary yes, the passage that in recent weeks had raised strong resentment among family doctors has in fact disappeared. The reminder remains for prescribers to remind patients of the savings that can sometimes be obtained thanks to generics, but it is an indication that remains exclusively verbal.
It is unlikely that the provision will undergo adjustments during the parliamentary process (at the time of writing there is talk of a probable trust on the part of the Government) and therefore the comments of the category acronyms can count on a sufficient margin of certainty. «The new text certainly represents a step forward» is the opinion of Giacomo Milillo, national secretary of the Fimmg «we rediscover the commitment undertaken in recent days by Minister Balduzzi to meet our requests. Also positive is the fact that the paragraph further strengthens the principle according to which substitution is possible only if there is the patient's consent, while otherwise the prescribed product must be given».
Satisfaction also at Snami: «It is our victory» says the president of the union, Angelo Testa «an obligation that would have only caused useless inconvenience to citizens has been set aside».
Positive comments also on another novelty of article 11, the one that delegates AIFA to evaluate optimal or single-dose packages "according to the pathologies to be treated". «I don't think there are many pathologies for which tailor-made packs would be needed» is Milillo's opinion «but returning periodically to the topic to check the situation never hurts». «We have been asking for single-dose packs for some time» says Testa «or alternatively that the pharmacist be allowed to repackage according to the therapeutic need of the moment»
March 1, 2012 – DoctorNews
Organic plant, from article 11 an incomprehensible mess
Distance and quorum remain, but what happens to the Organic Plant? With the liberalization decree being examined by the Senate for the first parliamentary yes, the reflections of the "day after" focus above all on letter c, paragraph 1 of article 11, as "baked out" on Tuesday evening by the Senate Industry Commission. Fault of the readings that on the paragraph (with which article 2 of 475/68 is fully rewritten) have flourished in the last 24 hours: in a communiqué released by the Pd, for example, explicitly indicates "the suppression of the organic plant" among the positive notes of the text mediated with the Pdl. And the same considerations come from the Anpi, promoter in the past weeks of a proposal that seems ri
