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Date Published: 08/04/2021
ARCHIVED - No more trips to hospital pharmacies for Andalusian outpatients
An agreement between the Andalusian health service and the association of chemists means that from now on, hospital outpatients who require certain medicines previously only obtainable from hospital pharmacies will be able to collect them from local chemists instead.
The SAS (Andalusian health service) and the Andalusian Council of Official Colleges of Pharmacists (CACOF) have signed an agreement whereby local chemists will be able to dispense hospital prescription medicines.
The system aims to improve patient experience and avoid unnecessary trips to hospitals, in a similar manner to another new service which will be delivering hospital pharmacy medicines to the homes of vulnerable elderly and disabled patients.
9000 patients are already using the system, which will be on trial this year with outpatients from the Hospital de Poniente in Almería, Hospital de Jerez de la Frontera in Cádiz, Hospital Virgen de las Nieves Hospital in Granada, Hospital Juan Ramón Jiménez Hospital in Huelva, Complejo Hospitalario in Jaén, Hospital Clínico Universitario Virgen de la Victoria in Málaga and Hospital Virgen Macarena in Seville.
The hospitals included in the system will inform patients of the possibility and explain which chemists they will be able to visit to obtain their prescription medicines if they so wish.
Chemists will have to guarantee that they can correctly store and dispense the medicines in accordance with hospital pharmacy specifications, and the hospital pharmacies will be responsible for acquiring the medicines and supervising and monitoring treatments.
This is part of wider-ranging measures aiming to improve hospital efficiency and the health service in the region as well as reduce the exposure of the more vulnerable to covid.
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