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Laws are rules of legal binding on all persons in a state or nation.
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3 pillars for laws and ethics
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Responding to symptoms, minor ailments, and advice for self-care in conditions
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In Every Pharmacy there should be Q.P .(RPh)
Drugs and other ingredients should be purchased from reputed source.
A pharmacist should not make any attempt to capture the business of fellow competitor by offering unfair discounts
A pharmacist should not show any such emotion on his face
A Pharmacist is a link between medical professionals and public.
A pharmacist should provide efficient and reasonable comprehensive and pharmaceutical services through the medical store or pharmacy.
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Legal requirements for establishment and maintenance of a drug store
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Maintenance of records of retail and wholesale drug store.
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Scope of pharmacy practice
Community Pharmacy
Scope of community pharmacy
Community pharmacy management
Selection of Pharmacy site
Objective
Legal requirements
Drug procurement
Drug storage and inventory control
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Retail pharmacy practice in Abroad
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2. Definition
Community pharmacy includes all the establishments
that are privately owned and whose function is to serve
the society’s need for drug products and pharmaceutical
services.
-Includes corporate pharmacy chain to pharmacy
department in supermarket and independently owned
pharmaceutical shop.
-Hybrid of professionalism and business.
3. Scope of community
pharmacy
•Advancement in research and technology – newer
drug in market.
•Population explosion – medical facility insufficient for
all.
•Disease prevention and health promotion in society
4. Community pharmacy
management
Selection of Pharmacy site.
-A needy town or city should be selected.
-The site available must be most suitable one available
in the city.
-Site of the pharmacy should be at the centre of the
population to be served to ensure accessibility and
convenience.
-Equipped with adequate and free parking facility.
5. -If possible the site should be in the neighborhood of
community shopping centre for convenience and
accessibility of the customers.
-An island type of location in which the pharmacy is in
the main traffic artery with adequate parking facility can
be opted.
- A bargain location in terms of rent proves to be a
liability than an asset in the long run.
6. Plan of an ideal wholesale
and retail drug store.
Objective of ideal layout design
1. Toattract a large number of customers.
2. Toincrease the sales of the store.
3. Toreduce the selling expenses to the minimum.
4. Toprovide customer satisfaction
7. 5.Have adequate space for reserve stock , office and
resting space.
6. Tohave proper entrance for the newly arrived goods.
7.Toproject a professional image and improve general
appearance.
8.Tominimize the movement of the customers in the
premises of the pharmacy.
8. A modern drug store should fulfill all therequirements
in schedule N of the Drug and Cosmetic rule 1945.
Minimum floor space required
Wholesale drug store : 200sqft
Retail drug store : 150sqft
9. Legal requirements
General license
•Granted to person who have the premise for the
business and who engage the services of a qualified
person to supervise the sale of the drugs.
•The license for the retail sale of drugs other than the
ones mentioned in the Schedule C,C1 and X are issued
in form 20.
•For drugs specified in Schedule C and C1 in form 21.
•Schedule X drugs in form 20F.
10. Condition for general
license
1. Should be displayed in a prominent place open to the
public.
2. The license should comply with the Drug and Cosmetics
rule there under in force.
3. Any change in the qualified staff should be reported to
the licensing authority within one month.
4. Precaution prescribed by the licensing authority for the
storage of schedule C and C1 drugs should be observed.
11. Restricted license
•The license for restricted sale of drugs other than those
specified in Schedule C,C1 and X are issued in the form
20A
•Those specified in Schedule C and C1 but not in X are
issued in the form 21A.
12. Condition for restricted licenses
1. The licensee must have adequate premises equipped
with adequate facility for the proper storage of drugs.
To which the licenses applies provided that this
condition apply to the vendors
2. The licensee should be complying with the drug and
cosmetic act and the rules there under in force.
3. Drugs only purchase from a duly licensed dealer or
manufacturer.
4. The licenses can only deal in such drugs can be sold
without the supervision of a qualified person.
5. Drugs should be sold in their original container.
13. Staff / personnel
Criteria for staff selection.
1. The qualification of the employee should not fall
below the minimum standard or else the reputation
of the pharmacy may get compromised.
1. ‘Over hiring’ i.e., superior people in inferior jobs,
should be avoided as this will lead to an adverse effect
on staff morale and efficiency.
14. Selection process
1. Job description
• The details of job, its relation to other job,
working hours, pay scale , etc
2. Job specification
• The qualification needed for the job.
3. Job recruitment
4. Selection of personnel – tests, interviews , etc.
5. Orientation and training of staff.
15. Coding of drugs
Process of assigning code for easy identification of a
material.
-Essential for good store keeping.
-Ambiguity in description is avoided.
-Length of description minimized.
-Codes ensure of items lying in the floor.
-Item easily identified when it is known by more than
one name.
16. Stocking of drugs
1. Stored in alphabetical order.
2. Provides a channel for distribution of drugs.
3. Drugs readily available in the pharmacy.
4. Enables correct storage of drugs e.g., antibiotics and
vaccines in refrigerator.
17. Maintenance of
register
law regarding the
-Legal records : Required by
acquisition and disposition of drugs.
-Patient records :Regarding the patient utilization of
the drugs.
-Financial records :Regarding the past and present
financial status of the company
18. Legal records
•According to federal and state law.
•Adequate and up to date records should be maintained
according to Drugs and cosmetics act 1940, Rules 1945
and the Poison Act 1919.
•Maintain adequate record related to acquisition and
disposition of certain drugs.
•Records of distribution of poisonous and hazardous
substances.
19. Patients records
-Patients drug history.
-Information on all kinds ok information about kinds and
amount of drugs taken by average patients.
-Source of information on insurance claims and income
tax deduction of patients.
20. Financial records
•For making sound decision regarding future needs ,
inventory requirements, etc.
•For evaluation of past operations, planning of present
activities , forecasting needs, and controlling the
activities.
•Analyzing revenues and expenses.
•Measuring return on investment.
•Help ensure profitable operations.
21. pharmacists
•The health professionals most accessible to the public.
with a
accordance
permitted, sell them
•They supply medicines in
prescription or, when legally
without a prescription.
•Their professional activities also cover counseling of
patients at the time of dispensing of prescription and
non-prescription drugs, drug information to health
professionals, patients and the general public, and
participation in health-promotion programmes.
• They maintain links with other health professionals in
22. Activities of community
Pharmacist( as per WHO)
1.Processing of prescriptions :
• verifies the legality, safety and appropriateness of the
prescription order.
• checks the patient medication record before
dispensing the prescription (when such records are
kept in the pharmacy).
• ensures that the quantities of medication are
dispensed accurately, and decides whether the
medication should be handed to the patient, with
appropriate counseling.
23. 2. Care of patients or clinical pharmacy.
integrate
intended
•The pharmacist seeks to collect and
information about the patient’s drug history.
•Clarify the patient’s understanding of the
dosage regimen and method of administration.
•Advises the patient of drug-related precautions.
•Monitors and evaluates the therapeutic response.
24. 3. Monitoring of drug utilization
Participate in arrangements for monitoring the
utilization of drugs, such as practice research projects,
and schemes to analyze prescriptions for the monitoring
of adverse drug reactions.
dispense
4.Traditional and alternative medicines
Supply traditional medicines and
homoeopathic prescriptions.
25. 5. Extemporaneous preparation and small-scale
manufacture of medicines
•Pharmacists prepare medicines which enables them to
adapt the formulation of a medicine to the needs of an
individual patient.
•small-scale manufacture of medicines, which must
accord with good manufacturing and distribution
practice guidelines.
26. 6. Responding to symptoms of minor
ailments
•receives requests from members of the public for
advice on a variety of symptoms and inquiries to a
medical practitioner.
•supply a non-prescription medicine, with advice to
consult a medical practitioner for self limiting minor
ailments.
•give advice without supplying medicine.
27. 7. Informing health care professionals and
the public
•The pharmacist compile and maintain information
on all medicines
•Provide this information as necessary to other
health care professionals and to patients
•Use it in promoting the rational use of drugs, by
providing advice and explanations to physicians and
to members of the public.
28. 8.Health promotion
•Take part in health promotion campaigns, locally and
nationally, on a wide range of health-related topics, and
particularly on drug-related topics or topics concerned
with other health problems and family planning.
•Take part in the education of local community groups in
health promotion, and in campaigns on disease
prevention, such as the Expanded Programme on
Immunization, and malaria and blindness programmes.
29. 9. Domiciliary services
•They provide an advisory as well as a supply service to
residential homes for the elderly, and other long-term
patients.
country pharmacists will visit certain
of house-bound patients
In certain
categories
counseling service that the patients
to provide the
would have
received had they been able to visit the pharmacy.
10. Agricultural and veterinary practice
•Pharmacists supply animal medicines and medicated
animal feeds.