Regulation of Pharmacy Practice

Legal Framework

• Define who can practice pharmacy and its scope

• Ensure integrity of supply chain and quality of medicines

Workforce Framework

• Competence of pharmacy staff

• Personnel resources to provide GPP

Economic Framework

Provision of sufficient resources and incentives

Academic Pharmacy

Regulatory

Community, hospital, and institutional

Public Health

Manufacturing

The practice areas of pharmacists

Continuing Professional Development

The inculcation of advanced knowledge, skills, and ethical values in a post-licensure specialized or in an inter- or multidisciplinary field of study for assimilation into professional practice, self-directed research and/or lifelong learning

Counterfeit pharmaceutical products

Products that are deliberately and fraudulently mislabeled with respect to identity and/or source or with fake packaging, and can apply to both branded and generic products

Dispensing

The sum of processes performed by a pharmacist from reading, validating, and interpreting prescriptions; preparing; packaging; labeling; record keeping; dose calculations; and counseling or giving information, in relation to the sale or transfer of pharmaceutical products, with or without a prescription or medication order

Expiration Date

The end date when the manufacturer can guarantee that a product possesses its claimed potency, efficacy, quality, and safety; after which its sale or distribution is prohibited

Filling

The act of dispensing or providing medicines in accordance with a prescription or medication order

Pharmacy aides/assistants

Persons who assist the pharmacist in the different aspects of pharmacy operation based on established SOPs and processes, with very minimal degree of independence or decision making and without direct interaction with patients

Pharmacy technicians

Persons who assist in compounding and dispensing of medicines in community, hospital, institutional and industrial settings or engaged in other activities under the supervision of the pharmacist

Philippine Practice Standards for Pharmacists

The established national framework for quality standards and guidelines of the practice of pharmacy that respond to the needs of the people who require the pharmacists’ services to provide optimal, evidence-based care as formulated by the integrated APO and approved by the PRC BOP

Pharmacy Law

An act regulating the practice of pharmacy and setting standards of pharmaceutical education in the Philippines and of other purposes.

Philippine Pharmacy Act

An act regulating and modernizing the practice of pharmacy in the Philippines

Foreign Reciprocity

Permits Filipino pharmacists to practice within its territorial limits on the same basis as the subjects or citizens of the said foreign country or state under reciprocity and under international agreements

Category A

Outlets requiring direct and immediate control and supervision of a pharmacistsC

Category B

Outlets where supervision and oversight of a pharmacist is required

Physician’s Sample

Pharmaceutical products given or intended to be given free to any health professional by a manufacturer or distributor or its professional service representative as part of its program or promotion shall not be sold to any pharmaceutical outlet or the consuming public.