In connection with the changes resulting from the provisions of the Pharmaceutical Law, which have been introduced since March 1, the community of family physicians has reported numerous problems with prescribing under the new rules.
Prescriptions under new rules. Family doctors talk about problems and write to Izabela Leszczyny
Published May 2, 2024 10:19
IT changes in the P1 Platform related to the e-Health Center's adjustment of its IT system to the provisions of Article 96a (7ab) of the Pharmaceutical Law lead to problems with the dosage of prescriptions written. The new dosage rules can often mislead patients themselves, leading to health-risky errors in the implementation of prescribed therapy. Changing previously used drops, doses or units to weight and volume conversion factors is confusing and incomprehensible to them.
The office programs in which GPs' medical records are maintained are currently unprepared for the changes and are unable to ensure efficient prescription writing, which significantly disrupts our daily work.
As a medical community centered around the College of Family Physicians in Poland, we strongly protest against the introduction of changes that burden doctors with additional administrative duties and make our daily work more difficult. Doctors should focus primarily on clinical issues in their work.
In the case of drug prescribing, the doctor's responsibility should be only: to select the appropriate preparation along with the dosage, to determine the method of dosage and the duration of therapy. All other parameters needed for the prescription (package size, number of packages) should be calculated automatically by the IT system. The College of Family Doctors in Poland proposes including the above solution in the adaptation work of the P1 Platform. Representatives of the KLRwP add that the manner in which the changes regarding e-prescribing are being implemented is unacceptable. They expect to withdraw from the implemented changes until the preparation of solutions in cooperation with the community of family doctors most burdened with the obligation to issue prescriptions in daily practice. The timing and manner of implementation of the planned changes must take into account the period of time needed for effective adjustment of practice programs, preceded by a testing phase on a small population, so as to test the consequences of the newly introduced changes.
Source: KLRwP
