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Quality and Safety Standards in Pharmaceutical Practices and Pharmaceutical Care
Background
Pharmaceutical care puts first the patient's quality of life through the provision of safe and efficient healthcare, while respecting the needs of healthcare professionals and society in general.
In continuing with the programme of activities carried out under the aegis of the former Partial Agreement in the Social and Public Health field, the Committee of Experts on quality and safety standards in pharmaceutical practices and pharmaceutical care (CD-P-PH/PC) was entrusted with improving pharmaceutical care and practices in community care homes and in ambulatory and hospital care services through specific programmes and policies. For more information about this Committee of Experts, the CD-P-PH/PC, click HERE.
Work Programme
The Committee of Experts, CD-P-PH/PC, has given priority to the development of:
- provisions and practices in quality assessment in pharmaceutical practices and care in Europe through quality indicators;
- provisions and practices for the stakeholders of pharmaceutical care in Europe inter alia raising medication-related health literacy of the public;
- provisions and practices in relevant non-European traditional medicine therapies used in Europe;
- quality and safety assurance guidelines for pharmacy prepared medicinal products; and
- the promotion of patient safety and the quality of medicines distributed via mail order trade. Read more on Medicines and the Internet.
Programme Results
- Surveys and reports
- Presentation and discussion of results
- Policy formulation
More information on the programme results.
Reports/ Model approaches
- Creation of a Better Medication Safety Culture in Europe: Building up Safe Medication Practices, (Prepared by the Expert Group on Safe Medication Practices [P-SP-PH/SAFE], 2006)
- Council of Europe Model Campaign "Avoid Risk For Your Health"
- Selling and Advertising of Medicines on the Internet, (Prepared by the Committee of Experts on Pharmaceutical Questions [P-SP-PH]), 13 November 2002, Strasbourg.
Products & Services
Pharmaceutical Care: Where do we stand - where should we go?
Key concepts in Pharmaceutical Care, Quality Assessment of Pharmaceutical Care in Europe, Sources of information - Survey Report, 2009.
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Past Events
Recommendation & Resolutions
Committee of Ministers' Resolution CM/ResAP(2011)1 on quality and safety assurance requirements for medicinal products prepared in pharmacies for the special needs of patient (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 19 January 2011 at the 1103rd meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
Committee of Ministers' Resolution ResAP (2007)2 on Good Practices for Distributing Medicines via Mail Order which protect Patient Safety and the Quality of the Delivered Medicine (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 5 September 2007 at the 1003rd meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
Committee of Ministers' Recommendation Rec(2006)7 on Management of Patient Safety and Prevention of Adverse Events in Health Care (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 24 May 2006 at the 965th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
Committee of Ministers' Resolution ResAP (2001)2 concerning the Pharmacist's Role in the Framework of Health Security (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 21 March 2001 at the 746th meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
Committee of Ministers' Resolution ResAP (97)2 on the Development of the Function of Pharmacists and the Adaptation of their Initial Training (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 30 September 1997 at the 602nd meeting of the Ministers' Deputies)
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