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PHARMACISTS UNITE AGAINST UNFAIR MEDICAL SCHEME PRACTICES

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Guest#101 Jan 25, 2016, 08:16
there are pharmacy rules for all. then how can dsp's be allowed to post insulin and medicines that travel 8 hours by road, without monitoring of the cold chain? also where is the patient counselling for mail order pahramacy patients? we in retail pharmacy have to assist patients always when the patient receives medicnes via post, but does not know how to take their medicines, especially when the geneic brands keep changing.
Guest#102 Jan 25, 2016, 09:09
I am disgusted by the way Discovery medical aid wants to force us to use specific generics. What do they get from this? I know they go to the pharmaceutical companies as well to force them into some sort of deal. Who benefits from this? Do they really care about their patients' wellbeing? Just look at their offices and the cars of their management....
Guest#103 Jan 25, 2016, 10:15
I TRUELY CARE FOR THE PHARMACY PROFESSION
I AM 62 YEARS OLD AND HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO THIS TYPE OF MEDICAL AID ABUSE FOR ALMOST MY ENTIRE WORKING CAREER.
Guest#104 Jan 25, 2016, 10:41
CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE JUST A SPECTATOR ANY MORE.
I MUST STAND UP -BE VISIBLE - AND BE COUNTED IN.
PHARMACISTS ARE ALSO IMPORTANT. WE AND OUR
PROFESSION CANNOT BE RULES BY ALL OTHERS IN THE FIELD ...... STOP THE SLIDE INTO OBSCURITY. HH
Guest#105 Jan 25, 2016, 10:49
because of the unfair control medical aid administrators have on the supply and pricing of medicine
Guest#106 Jan 25, 2016, 10:49
CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE JUST A SPECTATOR ANYMORE.
I MUST --BE VISIBLE-- STAND UP AND BE COUNTED IN.
WE PHARMACISTS CANNOT ALLOW OR BE RULED BY ALL
OTHER PLAYERS IN THIS OUR PROFESSIONAL FIELD
-- THANKS HH
Guest#107 Jan 25, 2016, 16:28
Pharmacist it's time for us to unite and we can be taken serious!!
Guest#108 Jan 25, 2016, 20:15
The fees that are published by the SAPC are and will always be ignored if they are not legislated. The system is being manipulated to eradicate Community Pharmacies, to incurr greater economies of scale in Chain Pharmacies.
Guest#109 Jan 26, 2016, 16:12
I signed because at sixty, I cannot see a young man making a career out of retail pharmacy. I would love to see a legacy and a future for upcoming pharmacist before I go.
ANDRE BENCE#110 Jan 26, 2016, 16:14

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#103: -  

 AMEN

Andre Bence#111 Jan 26, 2016, 16:21

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 So true. The SAPC dance to the DOH music and the DOH itself is bancrupt and impotent. Their HIV and TB regimes are just that. Crap written on paper that means nothing. If the HIV and TB medication runs out it is just tough luck. I have no respect for DOH at all.

Andre Bence#112 Jan 26, 2016, 16:23

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 AMEN

Guest#113 Jan 26, 2016, 20:58
I believe medical aid schemes are very unfair to community pharmacists. some of the medical aid schemes since 2004 have been paying the rate of 26% capped at R26 and have not adjusted their rates. medical aid schemes are not paying any professional services rates to pharmacists for services rendered and the SAPC seems to be OK with that even after the matter was raised in the last conference of the SAPC. very little effort is made by SAPC to compel medical aid schemes to pay pharmacist a professional fee for services rendered to their members.
Guest#114 Jan 27, 2016, 09:05
Ons bevind ons in 'n doodloop straat.Solank die kettinggroepe bereid is om teen weggee pryse te werk kan ons nie bestaan nie.Ons gee wel beter dienste maar die publiek is baie prys bewus.Voorspoed
Guest#115 Jan 27, 2016, 20:28

A Pharmacist is a professional with may faculties, working a 12hr shifts does not help our health, remunaration is just not fair! Let the medication be as cheap as it can be but they should pay us a consultation fee. Doctors , Podiatrists , Optometrists, Dieticians etc all have consultation fees. 

Speak to a Dr on the phone its a consult fee gone - Speak to a Pharmacist on the phone its free because we got nothing better to do behind the counter than to give free advice 24/7 always available. A slow puncture to our profession...

Guest#116 Jan 28, 2016, 18:08
Therapeutic substitution is not legal for good reason and should also be highlighted.
Guest#117 Jan 30, 2016, 16:17
This is the fight I will fight with everything in me
Guest#118 Feb 03, 2016, 07:30
I am a pharmacist in South Africa and I am against medical aid schemes bullying community pharmacies.
RP#119 Feb 10, 2016, 10:26

There is no control on medicine prices for doctors or vets. We work in a professional capacity with little to show for it. It is important to build up the public's image of pharmacists. We study hard, we work hard long hours and we give a lot of ourselves. Fair and just remuneration needs to happen 

 

Guest#120 Feb 15, 2016, 12:08
because the medical aids have to much "power" when it comes to telling customers where to go and what to use.
Guest#121 Feb 23, 2016, 05:49
Medical aids are abusing the medical profession. They only care about building huge reserve funds, while pressuring all medical professionals, specialists, doctors, pharmacists, etc. to comply to their rules and regulations. Forcing healthcare professionals to not give the best care to their patients, but to give the cheapest care available.
Guest#122 Feb 25, 2016, 19:20
Mainly as a result of the damage done to smaller pharmacies (community pharmacies) as a result of the blatant interference of large medical aids in competition market systems by manipulation and coercion of their members via unethically redirecting then and make freedom of choice by members impossible through coercion.
Guest#123 Mar 01, 2016, 04:00
I am tired of pharmacists being so under valued as a profession. We literally hold our patients' lives in our hands hundreds of times a day.We deserve to be acknowledged and remunerated accordingly as other professional disciplines are..
Biddy#124 Mar 01, 2016, 04:09

Medical Aid Rip-off

In addition to my previous comment, medical aids should be made aware that pharmacists, if they only stsnd together, could strike a heavy blow against them by refusing to process claims through thrm. None of them have the manpower to process paper claims.

Guest#125 Mar 01, 2016, 06:41
I WANT TO SHOW SOLIDARITY BUT I FEEL THAT THE COUNCIL FOR MEDICAL SCHEMES SHOULD BE PETITIONED AS THEY ARE THERE TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC.