Spain to allow nurses and physiotherapists to prescribe medication

Spain to allow nurses and physiotherapists to prescribe medication

Getting a prescription for medication is set to get even easier in Spain after the approval of a new draft law.

The new regulation of the prices of medicines provided for by the drug law does not convince the pharmaceutical industry. After its approval this Tuesday in the Council of Ministers, Mónica García, explained that all the changes included in the new regulations had been made after a “fluid dialogue with all the actors represented in the law”. Just a few hours later all the employers related to the medicine have published a statement criticizing t…

The Council of Ministers approves a preliminary draft that allows nurses and physiotherapists to be prescribed or to change a drug equivalent to pharmacists. A reform is being put in place to make more progressive the co-payment that Health included in a first text and that it hopes to incorporate in the process The Government is moving forward with a new pharmaceutical policy that gives more weight to the State vis-à-vis industry The Government…

On Tuesday, the Council of Ministers approved the draft law on medicines and medical devices, with which the Ministry of Health intends to update the system of reference prices and extend the competences of nurses, who, together with physiotherapists, may prescribe "within their competence." In addition, pharmacists may supply equivalent medicines if they do not have the prescribed medicine without the need for patients to return for the new pre…

The pharmaceutical industry and pharmacists have mounted in anger after the approval of the Council of Ministers, last Tuesday, the preliminary draft of the drug law, an initiative that seeks to save some 1.3 billion euros to the public coffers and that will allow nurses and physiotherapists to prescribe within their competences. "From the Ministry of Health we are betting for a greater progressivity in the sections, so that they will stop affec…

The government approves the prelude to a new drug law, which could bring about changes in pharmacies. In Y ahora Sonsoles, Boticaria García tells us what this law, currently in draft form, would entail. The first major change is that pharmacists' powers will be increased. If the doctor has prescribed a medication in pill form and the pharmacy only has powder due to a shortage, they will be able to prescribe the variety they have available. Furth…