Making the delivery of medicines easier and faster, which can be had at home or picked up at the pharmacy without having to queue up at the doctor to have the prescription redone. It is one of the objectives of the 'Dofar Project', launched in Sardinia by the Fimmg (Italian Federation of General Practitioners) for patients who habitually have to take medicines or suffer from chronic diseases, as explained by Fimmg regional secretary Alessandro Usai.
"The project is divided into three different types of service - he continues - The citizen who participates can collect the prescriptions from the doctor's office in set times, collect the drugs from the pharmacy and have them directly at home". The memorandum of understanding provides for the support of an IT platform which, in addition to sending the family doctor monthly 'alerts' when the patient is about to run out of therapy, and the invitation to repeat the prescription, also stores the quantity of doses and drugs dispensed over the past thirty days.
"The project was studied - he continues - with strict attention to privacy legislation and provides for the voluntary adhesion of the patient, who can indicate the pharmacy where to use it, in addition to the voluntary adhesion of the doctor and the pharmacist, and the creation of a database available to the doctor for purposes of appropriateness and waste reduction".
In this way, the citizen will be able to avoid long queues at the doctor's office to repeat prescriptions, "while the doctor - concludes Usai - will have more time for clinical activity and the pharmacist will be able to retain the patient".
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