Changes related to introduction of e-prescription – a new draft bill

On 14 February 2018, the Government Legislation Centre published a new draft bill amending certain laws with regard to introduction of e-prescription.

The new bill amends seven acts, including Pharmaceutical Law and the Act on the reimbursement of medicines, foodstuffs intended for particular nutritional use and medical devices.

The bill provides, among others, substantial formalization of the process of submitting request by health care providers. These requests shall  cover additional information, e.g.:

• number of patients provided with medicines on the basis of a previous request; 
   
• written confirmation of the request issued by a person authorized to write prescriptions (within the scope of providing health care services)

• declaration that products indicated in the request will be used only for the purpose of providing health care services,
   
• statement, that the requested number of medicines does not exceed one-month supply. 

The Council of Ministers accepted the draft bill on 20 February 2018.
 

The draft bill, together with its justification and supplementing documents, is available under the following link: http://legislacja.rcl.gov.pl/projekt/12308251/katalog/12491278#12491278