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MUDr. Adam Hlôška CEO of the Pharmacy Section and Director of Pharmacy Department

Agenda of the meeting:

  1. Dr. Slaný informed about the request of the Bratislava self-governing region and Slovak Pharmacy Chamber to solve problem of counterfeits medical prescription by introducing protective features on medical forms Regulations. Representatives of BSK and SLEK briefed on the problem. SLEK expressed the need to introduce any economically viable protective measures the element of medical prescriptions with a view to checking the security features in practice no further technical equipment of the pharmacy was required, with priority The aim of legislative regulation should be to prevent the copying of medical the rules, as well as the introduction of a record-keeping check on the issue of forms.
    Ing. Rastislav Beliansky, Director General of the Informatics Section, informed that The problem of falsified prescription forms will solve the introduction of information electronic system e-health from 1.1.2017.
    Representatives of printers, ŠEVT and PROMPT printers have commented on technical options for introducing security features.
    ŠEVT offered the possibility of water printing as a protective element, the price of the prescription would is increased to about 3 cents, leaving the current price 1.5 cents.
    - The representative of ŠEVT further stated that it is necessary to require from the producers and distributors of the forms comply with the method of selling medical the rules laid down by Decree No 60 / 2012 Z.z, and in this decree suggest the method of control and penalties in case of breach of those provisions. In case of if consideration would be given to the introduction of protective features of watermark paper, special Colours, holograms suggested the use of such protective elements that are not bound only for printing in printing works certified for the printing of prizes, due to fact, that medical regulations are not included in the price list.

- They stressed the need to consider such a protective an element that would be effective and easily identifiable in pharmacies. If a safeguard element would be introduced, taking into account the effectiveness of the Decree, doctors have the opportunity to spend already purchased forms; it may be a period several months
- The representative of ŠEVT stated that according to their previous experience of solving similar issues at the Ministry of Education of the Slovak Republic, use of watermark paper. This paper is available for any printer Þ not only for the printing works of cenins, but also unique in that the producers such the type of paper guarantees that one type of watermark is produced and sold only to one to the customer. This type of protection element is easily identifiable and v combined with registered numbering guarantees a high degree of protection. Provisional the increase in the cost of producing and distributing prescription forms is estimated ŠEVT
- More precisely, an increase in production and distribution costs would be have been estimated by the determination of other parameters - exact specification Watermark, weight of paper, duration of production of this kind of recipes and z the resulting production and distribution regime...
Estimated cost of manufacturing and distribution of medical equipment regulations using other protective will be able to estimate more accurately specification (colour type, area covered, number of medically produced regulations, production and distribution arrangements)..
PROMPT offered the solution of classical printing using a pricein color with by mechanical control using a coin. This is a priceless color from Switzerland, which can only be used by cenin printers, this color is strictly registered and is detectable even under the UV lamp.
MUDr. The depth pointed out that the increase in the price of the prescription could be maximum up to 20% optimal 0% to 10%. MZ SR will communicate with Slovak Ministry of Education, Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic and Ministry of Finance of the Slovak Republic the security features on their documents so that in the next procedure concerning the amendments to the relevant decree have not distorted the principles of competition; and the whole process has been clearly transparent.

Miscellaneous

Conclusions of the working meeting:

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