2023-09-10 13:37:00
Beware of announcement effects?! Traveling to Rouen, Thursday August 31, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne announcement that pharmacists will in the future be able to prescribe antibiotics directly, without the patient having to go to their general practitioner.
Angina and cystitis
The measure only concerns two well-identified diseases: cystitis (or urinary infection) and angina, the bacterial origin of which will have been previously established by a test carried out in a pharmacy.
However, the announcement of this measure does not coincide, as often, with its actual implementation. The latter might take a few more months. However, patients are already crossing the threshold of Clermont pharmacies in search of antibiotics. A quick reminder, therefore: pharmacists are “still waiting for the official texts”, says Nicolas Verdier, pharmacist in Clermont-Ferrand and president in Puy-de-Dôme of the Union of Community Pharmacists’ Unions.
Already possible
Furthermore, it is already possible, in certain cases of urinary infection, to receive antibiotics directly in a pharmacy. To do this, your pharmacy must have signed a cooperation agreement with a multi-professional healthcare center or a territorial professional healthcare community.
This agreement implies that the pharmacy staff undergo training in the management of this disease and in the protocol for dispensing antibiotics set by the High Authority for Health (HAS). Likewise, to treat angina and cystitis.
“We will all be trained and qualified, we don’t leave like that with a gun in mind.”
Nicolas Verdier (President of the Union of Community Pharmacists Unions in Puy-de-Dôme)
Patience, therefore. And the pharmacist clarifies: “Antibiotics will be delivered in very specific cases, it is very protocolized. If there is the slightest doubt, we will refer the patient to SOS Médecins, the emergency room or their general practitioner.”
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