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THE FUTURE OF PHARMACY
VOL 28, NO.1 - JUNE 2012
2002 2003
24 47
101
136
211
318
361
406
457
2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
YEAR
NUMBER OF ACCREDITED PHARMACIES
500
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
100
50
0
HOLISTIC APPROACH: ACCREDITED PHARMACY ACROSS THAILAND
1
Awareness of the Public
Regulatory Compliance
Competent Pharmacists
Integrate Accredited Pharmacy into Health
Insurance Scheme
2 Support for Accredited
Pharmacy
3 Promote Professional
Attitude
4 Develop Career Ladder
7 Review law
8
Increase Education opportunity for Pharmacy
owner’s Successor
9 Increase Regulatory
Enforcement
10 Create Pharmacist Allocation System
11
Rainforce Strict Regulatior to
New Pharmacies
12
Establish Consultation for the team
13
Establish Competency
Training Program
14 Apply GPP/PPG and
Code of Ethic
15
Develop New roles for Pharmacist working in
Accedited Pharmacy
16 Reduce proactive
Ethical control
17 Induce Pharmacist
Student Ethic
Public Relation through
Mass Media
Public Relation through Public Activities
5
6
Conducive Advancement Atmosphere
Ethical Pharmacy
Fig. 1: The number of accredited pharmacies by year – Source: The Thai Food and Drug Administration (at 31 March 2012)
Fig. 2: The Roadmap towards accredited pharmacies in Thailand
However, there have been problems, for examples, waiting too long at hospitals, too short explanation from physicians, confusion of medication dispensed. The gaps were seen as opportunities for accredited community pharmacies to contribute their professional capabilities directly to the health care system to improve quality of patient care. Con- sequently, since 2004 there have been a number of projects that received grants from the National Health Security Office (NHSO) , one of the three health insurance schemes , which DPWFSTPG5IBJQPQVMBUJPO BTTIPXOJOUBCMF
Most of research projects were submitted by independent researchers. The first project was carried out in 2004. The project studied at two sites for the roles of fill and refill prescriptions. The results showed that the capitation budget was adequate to include community pharmacies. Besides customers’ satisfaction was very high, drug interactions were detected as well as other drug related problems.2,3
Afterwards, the role was expanded to screening of Diabetic (DM) and/or Hypertension (HPT) high risk groups to increase