Is the licensed pharmacist certificate useful?

Hello, the licensed pharmacist certificate still has many benefits:

1. The main manager of a retail pharmacy must be a licensed pharmacist

At the beginning of last year, the State Council The “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” National Food Safety Plan and the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” National Drug Safety Plan were issued. The Plan mentioned that “the main managers of all retail pharmacies shall have the qualifications of licensed pharmacists and have the guidance of licensed pharmacists during operations.” Rational use of drugs. "

Not long ago, the Guangdong Provincial Food and Drug Administration also mentioned in the "Measures for the Administration of Grading and Classification of Drug Retail Enterprises (Trial)": "The legal representative of the enterprise or the person in charge of the enterprise. Should have the qualification of a practicing pharmacist (or a practicing Chinese pharmacist)."

As of the end of December 2017, the number of registered pharmacists nationwide was 408,431. Currently, the average number of licensed pharmacists per 10,000 people is only 3.0, leaving a huge gap in the market for licensed pharmacists.

2. Newly opened pharmacies must be equipped with two licensed pharmacists

In September 2017, the Hefei Food and Drug Administration issued the "Interim Provisions on Strengthening the Supervision and Management of Drug Retail Enterprises in Hefei" , requires that starting from October 1, 2017, newly opened pharmacies need to be equipped with 2 licensed pharmacists registered in the pharmacy, and their work unit should be consistent with the practicing unit stated in the "Licensing Pharmacist Registration Certificate" and must not be employed in other enterprises. Part-time; if there are traditional Chinese medicine preparations in the business scope, a licensed traditional Chinese pharmacist should be employed.

This means that pharmacies must be staffed by licensed pharmacists. Under the requirements of the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", I believe that various localities will successively introduce relevant regulations to ensure "one to two licensed pharmacists per store", and the market demand for licensed pharmacists will reach a new high; and the current registration data of licensed pharmacists in our country looks huge , in fact, the gap is very large!

3. The pass rate of licensed pharmacists in 2017 hit a new high in recent years

The number of applicants for the 2017 National Licensed Pharmacist Qualification Examination was 675,179, and the actual number of references was 523,296 people, the reference rate is 77.50, the number of qualified people is 152,770, and the passing rate is 29.19, which is about 10 higher than previous years and a new high in recent years.

The postponement of the 2017 examination and the continuous improvement of the quality of candidates are certainly important influencing factors. However, the current market demand for licensed pharmacists is large, and the shortage of licensed pharmacists is also a reason that cannot be ignored.

It can be inferred that the certificates in 2018 will still be in a state of high volume, and the pass rate will not drop too low.

4. Pharmacist clinics have appeared in many places, and the role of pharmacists has been further enhanced

At present, "pharmacist clinics" have appeared in Beijing, Heilongjiang, Guangdong and other provinces and cities. Pharmacist outpatient clinics opened in Guangdong hospitals are mainly divided into three categories: pharmacist-physician joint outpatient clinics, pharmacist comprehensive outpatient clinics, and pharmacist specialist outpatient clinics.

With the permission of the hospital and department, most of the drugs directly prescribed by clinical pharmacists are basic routine drugs, or when prescribing drugs based on the doctor’s initial diagnosis during follow-up visits, the drugs must be communicated and confirmed with the hospital. Basically, the doctor "agrees" the prescription rights to the clinical pharmacist, allowing the clinical pharmacist to prescribe medicine to the patient. In other words, the clinical pharmacist has the "agreed prescription rights."

The emergence of pharmacist clinics has allowed practicing pharmacists to go to the clinic, and the role of pharmacists has been further enhanced.

5. Electronic prescriptions flow to pharmacies and can be sold after being reviewed by licensed pharmacists

Since March, Chongqing and Tianjin Food and Drug Administration have successively announced that retail pharmacies will trial the sale of prescription drugs with electronic prescriptions. Policy (hereinafter referred to as the "Electronic Prescription Pilot"). Previously, this policy had sporadic pilots in major cities across the country and in Guangdong and other places, but this year there has been a trend of accelerating the pilots.

Relevant materials for operation and quality management in accordance with the "Pharmaceutical Goods Management Practice"; at the same time, according to the legal definition of electronic prescriptions given by relevant documents of the Sichuan Provincial Health and Family Planning Commission, electronic prescriptions first come from "with legal qualifications" "Hospital", followed by "a legally qualified physician" issuing the product, which is transmitted to the pharmacy's terminal equipment through Internet information technology, and can be sold only after being reviewed by a licensed pharmacist in the pharmacy. In other words, if there is no licensed pharmacist in a pharmacy, it will not be able to sell medicines even with electronic prescriptions.

6. Encourage pharmacists to join the family doctor team

A few days ago, the Department of Primary Health issued the "Notice on Providing Family Doctor Contracting Services in 2018" and mentioned that pharmacists are encouraged to Join the family doctor team and sign a service agreement.

The introduction of this policy has given pharmacists who are limited to working in pharmacies and pharmacies new job opportunities. Pharmacists can not only dispense and prepare medicines in pharmacies, but also, like doctors, provide services to contracted residents. Ensure basic medication.

These policies all show that the licensed pharmacist examination is constantly being taken seriously, and the improvement of its gold content is also the general trend!