Can licensed pharmacists practice in more places? Which provinces have opened it?

Licensed pharmacists can register for practice in multiple institutions, which is called "multi-site practice." Licensed pharmacists practice in multiple locations in order to optimize the allocation of pharmacist talent resources and improve the pharmacist service capabilities of pharmacies. Excellent licensed pharmacists can provide patients with good pharmaceutical services and achieve more gain for more work, which can alleviate the problem that community pharmacies below the county level are not equipped with excellent licensed pharmacists.

Which provinces can licensed pharmacists practice in multiple locations?

Recently, the Municipal Supervision Bureau of Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province implemented the "multi-location practice" for licensed pharmacists in pharmacies. Once the news was reported, it caused widespread discussion.

Multiple provinces are trialling "multi-site practice"

It is speculated that the "multi-site practice" of licensed pharmacists in Jiaxing is mainly to alleviate or temporarily solve the problem of insufficient licensed pharmacists in pharmacies. In fact, in addition to Jiaxing, many provinces have also proposed "multiple practice locations" for licensed pharmacists, such as:

Shaanxi

Encourage licensed pharmacists and pharmacists to practice in multiple locations in drug retail enterprises, as Supplement when the resident licensed pharmacist is not on duty.

Drug retail stores must establish multi-point practitioner files and management systems and file them with the local market bureau, and their continuing education shall be organized and implemented by the local market supervision bureau.

Tianjin

Encourage the diversified use of licensed pharmacists. As a supplement for practicing pharmacists when they are not on duty, unregistered personnel holding the "Professional Qualification Certificate for Practicing Pharmacists" can refer to the provisions of the "Registration Management Measures for Practicing Pharmacists" and submit a part-time contract to register as a practicing pharmacist and work part-time in a drug retail enterprise. Prescription review and deployment, rational medication guidance and consulting services, and can participate in the prescription review and medication guidance of the remote prescription review room of pharmaceutical retail chain enterprises.

The two places made it clear in the documents that the "multi-site practice" of licensed pharmacists is allowed to supplement the absence of licensed pharmacists without reducing the original equipment.

I think this is a reasonable and feasible suggestion under a sound management system. It can not only meet the demand for licensed pharmacists in pharmacies that are open all year round, but also activate more licensed pharmacists to "work more and gain more" and increase their income. The benefits of practicing pharmacists in multiple locations

First, improve welfare benefits. Economic means are the most direct and effective way to solve the shortage of licensed pharmacists. Increase the salary and bonus of practicing pharmacists, increase their income, encourage more people to engage in the work of practicing pharmacists, stimulate the work enthusiasm of already practicing pharmacists, and attract more people to join the team of practicing pharmacists.

Secondly, train more pharmaceutical professionals. Practicing pharmacists are very professional. As can be seen from the pharmacy qualification requirement, most of the people who work as licensed pharmacists are pharmaceutical professionals. However, the actual situation is that there are not many pharmaceutical colleges and universities in my country, and there are relatively few pharmaceutical students, which is not suitable for the growing health needs of the people. In my opinion, we can consider measures such as expanding the enrollment of pharmacy students, improving the educational capabilities of pharmacy colleges, setting up special funds, student loans, additional scholarships, etc. to encourage more pharmacy students to engage in the profession of pharmacists and expand the reserve force and number of practicing pharmacists. .

Again, improve work efficiency. To adapt to the development of the new situation and the promotion of electronic information technology, use automated operations and auxiliary personnel to improve the work efficiency of practicing pharmacists, reduce their workload and repetitive manual labor, and increase their time for professional work.