Present:

for MZ SR: MUDr. Peter Musil, MSc.
  PharmDr. Martina Hromádková, Director of the
  Ms PharmDr. Miriam Vuleva Director OKC
for the Medifo project team: PharmDr. John Holec
  PharmDr. Peter Stanko
  Mr Michal Páleník

The working meeting was organised on the basis of the Medifo project team's initiative to present the new project "Medifo', medical care'.

A representative of the project team Medifo informed the present about the Medifo project. These are drug, nutritional and supplemental advice for patients in the pharmacy as a solid part of health care.
The project "Medifo' offers solutions that do not require any legislative changes or new investments and has the ambition to address the current situation with a shortage of doctors and nurses, with increased cooperation between doctors and pharmacists.
The aim of the project is to transfer the centre of gravity of some health services and care to public pharmacies and to bring a highly specialised workplace of first contact with the patient. The list of services of the project copperfo is dispensation activity, screening activity, nutritional and supplemental advice.
A representative of the project team informed those present of the main objectives of the project:

  • to map out the opportunities for making the most of the potential of a public pharmacy to provide healthcare and promote public health,
  • promote innovative and optimised medical care procedures,
  • explore the potential of medical care as a place of provision of standard and above standard medical care,
  • to qualify the costs and economic benefits of providing medical care to this extent.

He announced how the Medifo project would help:

  • improving the health of the population
  • reduce mortality and morbidity rates to selected diseases
  • reducing the cost of public health care
  • medifo as a sieve for the efficient use of doctors' time
  • effective use of healthcare professionals
  • health care establishment without a requirement to complete the system

The project team Medifo informed MZ SR that there has been a pilot program in one pilot pharmacy in Nitra for 1⁄2 years. The aim is to provide such a form of extended medical care to county or district towns. They communicate with doctors, medical faculties, pharmaceutical faculty and other professional companies.
The Ministry of Health of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as "the Ministry') informed those present that more detailed information was needed after the project was extended to several pharmacies.
The participants agreed that the project would need to be discussed with the Health Section and the Slovak Pharmacy Chamber in March of April 2019.