New services in Italian pharmacies, which are increasingly becoming a point of reference in the area as a place of care and assistance. After the “Fazio” decree of 2009 and the measures adopted during the pandemic, the Simplifications bill passed yesterday in the Council of Ministers adds a further step to the evolution of the pharmacy as a front-line territorial unit of the National Health System.
«An evolution of which we were precursors», underlines the president of Confcooperative Sanità, Giuseppe Milanese. «For this reason, since 2010, with our pharmaceutical cooperatives which bring together over 9,000 pharmacist cooperative members, we have strengthened our commitment to promoting the socio-health and welfare value of the pharmacist and the pharmacy, identifying it as the neighborhood place where people can find the first responses to one’s need for care and assistance. A regulatory innovation which, if it is confirmed as we hope, pushes us to continue on this ground, insisting on the integration of the pharmacy with the other actors present in the area, starting from the socio-health cooperatives and general medicine”.
Thanks to these regulatory changes, he highlights Confcooperative Sanità, in the pharmacy it will be possible to administer all the vaccines identified by the National Vaccine Prevention Plan to over 12s, supply drugs and medical devices for the treatment of patients in home, residential and semi-residential care. But there will also be the possibility of carrying out first-instance analytical services such as diagnostic tests and telemedicine services.
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