According to Isabelle Adenot, the next challenge for the Order of Pharmacists is to extend access to the Pharmaceutical File to hospitals to facilitate city-hospital coordination.
When leaving the hospital, many patients often feel as if they are on their own. Faced with prescriptions from hospital practitioners (PH), city doctors sometimes give them another story. And at the end of this circuit, it is often the pharmacist who has trouble finding his way around. A situation that the National Council of the Order of Pharmacists (CNOP) hopes to soon be able to combine with the past.
“The Pharmaceutical File (PD) is a professional tool that has become essential and unavoidable for the French and health professionals because it responds to the major current health issues (…) Our next challenges: extending access to the PD in health establishments to facilitate city-hospital coordination and improve vaccination coverage. »Declared Isabelle Adenot, during his last press conference.
The President of the Order refers in particular to the DP-Patient in Pharmacies for internal use (PUI) known to promote and secure personalized patient care at the entrance to the hospital. For example, it allows the hospital pharmacist to know the medication history of hospitalized patients who have a PD.
And in September 2016, this still concerned more than 34 million patients. Pharmacists set an example since more than 99% of pharmacies are connected to the Pharmaceutical File.
The key figures of PD in establishments
– 317 establishments that have signed agreements, ie 11.8% of establishments.
– 243 establishments connected, ie 9% of establishments.
– 80% of departments have at least one establishment connected to the DP
– 80% of patients who go to the hospital and who are taken care of by the PUI pharmacist have a PD.
An effective tool during health crises
But Isabelle Adenot also recalled that the PD is not just a personalized patient’s medical file. These uses have, it is true, extended over time. Today, the services available are multiple. In particular with the “DP-Alert”, very useful during health alerts. Since July 2010, the National Order of Pharmacists can issue a health alert (DGS, ANSM, etc.) in a few minutes to all pharmacies connected to the DP, in metropolitan France or in the overseas departments. And the tool has proven its worth, with 24 health alerts issued in the past 12 months.
Another service in force, the DP-Recall. Since November 2011, recalls and withdrawals of batches of medication have been sent to pharmacies via the DP portal, in the same way as for sending health alerts. Pharmacists, thus informed in real time, can immediately withdraw the drugs concerned from sale. This device, carried out with the National Medicines Safety Agency (ANSM) and the operating laboratories, operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. This has resulted in 60 batch recalls which have been disseminated over the past 12 months.
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