There have been no significant changes, both in the rules for issuing and filling prescriptions issued by veterinarians, reports the Supreme Pharmaceutical Chamber. Pharmacists had concerns about paper prescriptions for narcotics or psychotropic substances.
NIA: Veterinary prescriptions for narcotic and psychotropic drugs still in paper form
Published Dec. 5, 2023 10:57
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"Detailed rules for veterinarians' prescriptions for products used in humans that will be used in animals are set forth in the Regulation of the Minister of Health of May 9, 2003 on veterinarians' prescriptions for medicinal products or prescription drugs intended for humans that will be used in animals (Journal of Laws No. 97, item 891, as amended)," the NIA reminds.
These prescriptions continue to be issued only in paper form, for each group of products prescribed on them. Pharmacists' doubts were probably related to the fact that, according to the decision of the Ministry of Health, prescriptions for such drugs will be available only in electronic form. However, this applies to drugs prescribed for humans.
"The only significant change regarding prescriptions issued by this group of authorized persons was introduced in the Dec. 23, 2020 Regulation of the Minister of Health on prescriptions (Journal of Laws 2023, item 487). A prescriber who is a veterinarian is required to include a unique identifying number on a paper veterinary prescription on which a medicinal product containing a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance referred to in the Anti-Drug Addiction Act is prescribed," the Chamber points out.
Prescriptions issued by a veterinarian for medicinal products containing in their composition a psychotropic substance or narcotic agent, any of which belongs to Group II-N, III-P or IV-P as defined by the Law on Counteracting Drug Addiction of July 29, 2005, are still only in paper form.
