PHARMACISTS UNITE AGAINST UNFAIR MEDICAL SCHEME PRACTICES
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Guest#51 Jan 15, 2016, 07:56
Sick and tired of unfair medical aid practises. We are after all highly trained professionals and deserve to make a decent living while also being able to give excellent service to the public.
Guest#52 Jan 15, 2016, 08:18
I am working in a community pharmacy and would like to buy the pharmacy but are not sure if the future for this pharmacy are good because of what is happening now?
Guest#53 Jan 15, 2016, 08:24
It's a very real issue that needs to be dealt with. The future of independant pharmacy is at stake. In the long run the public will also suffer.
Guest#54 Jan 15, 2016, 08:53
If this carries on, the patient won't be able to discuss their meds with a professional anymore. It will put more pressure on doctors to manage patients meds. Why is it that we as pharmacists in SA are seen as second grade professionals, as to the rest of the world where the importance of a pharmacist is paramount. Someone high up needs to understand the actual role of a pharmacist. We are not just pill counters.
Guest#55 Jan 15, 2016, 09:28
now a days medical aids playing politics with patients life's. this system must be changed.
Nicky Belseck#56 Jan 15, 2016, 10:18
Frontshop Pharmacy Magazine - Media coverage
Great to see proactive pharmacists taking a stand. We will be featuring the petition in Frontshop Pharmacy Magazine. If you have any issues you'd like to raise or specific thoughts you'd like to share with the magazine please send your comments to the editor at [email protected]
Guest#57 Jan 15, 2016, 12:10
Re: Frontshop Pharmacy Magazine - Media coverage
#56: Nicky Belseck - Frontshop Pharmacy Magazine - Media coverage
Thanks for your support - we need as much media coverage as we can get - if you have any other contacts you can forward the petition to, we would appreciate it.
Guest#58 Jan 15, 2016, 14:23
pharmacy dispensing fees are too low to be able to give a good
service. we cannot afford to employ more pharmacists
service. we cannot afford to employ more pharmacists
Guest#59 Jan 15, 2016, 14:41
because it is the correct and just thing to do.
the sapc has to support us- it wont exist without us
the sapc has to support us- it wont exist without us
Guest#60 Jan 15, 2016, 17:22
I just hate to the fact that medical schemes want to penalise me as a pharmacist for drug substitution which is within the scope of practise of my profession that I earned.
Guest#61 Jan 15, 2016, 17:50
Sick and tired of unfair practices against pharmacists....we are qualified to help with medical problems in a country like South Africa where not everybody is covered by medical aid , but our hands are tied by regulations and medical aid mafias...the biggest problem start with medical aids and to favour Dischem, Clicks, Medirite and we could go on.....what a pity of a career messed up with greedy people!! We as pharmacists ,have a better knowledge of Pharmacology than nursing staff,yet they can dispense S4 and what not else!!! DISGUSTING!!
Guest#62 Jan 15, 2016, 18:13
because SAPC is a nil on contract for pharmacist and we pay them to stay alive and its time that we all STOP servicing medical funders and let their "customers" pay us and try and claim from them so they can handle these billions of stupid arguments themselves..Its the most legal corrupt system EVER available anywhere
Guest#63 Jan 15, 2016, 18:16
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phone me , I will help u make the deciscion.....if u r a good opoerater u will make it!!!082 892 2036
Guest#65 Jan 15, 2016, 18:59
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#62: - agree - - need to transfer the administrators back to them so we can provide good pharmaceutical care
Guest#66 Jan 15, 2016, 20:47
This issue should have been taken up many years ago as Section 22G provides for the maximum fee a pharmacist may charge, whilst the MSA provides for Medical Schemes to contract DSPs. However the MSA provide for contracting DSPs in an era before Medicine Price Regulations came into effect. This shiuld have been considered as the fuspensing fee is the legislated health professional fee.
Guest#67 Jan 15, 2016, 21:18
Because its a very critical issue that needs urgent action.let the truth be known that medical aids have been the destruction of the independent pharmacies who are by and large are struggling to survive.
Guest#68 Jan 15, 2016, 22:55
Am annoyed by the way medical aid schemes bully the pharmacy profession with the SAPC keeping silent about it. The forced acceptance of inferior products (disguised as generics) by the laity because of ignorance is almost criminal, the untold anxiety and inconvenience suffered because of postal dispensaries
Guest#69 Jan 16, 2016, 03:00
MEDICAL AID PRICES ARE VERY RIDICULOUS.DEY ARE NOT PAYING ENOUGH FOR COSTLY MEDICINES THAT WE DISPENSE.THERE IS NO PROFT AT ALL.WHAT IS THE USE OF BUYING MEDICINES SOOOOO EXPENSIVE AND NOT BE ADEQUATELY REIMBURSED FOR THEM? I AM CONSIDERING NOT TO TAKE MEDICAL AIDS ANYMORE!
Guest#71 Jan 16, 2016, 08:03
fully agree
Guest#72 Jan 16, 2016, 08:06
I'm sick of medical aids running the health industry and forcing
people to go where the m/aid benefit most
people to go where the m/aid benefit most
Guest#73 Jan 16, 2016, 09:31
Thank you for your effort to assist all community pharmacists.
Guest#74 Jan 16, 2016, 12:34
These facts need to be said publicly
Guest#75 Jan 16, 2016, 17:25
I am community pharmacist in an independent
Pharmacy and it is affecting us
Pharmacy and it is affecting us
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