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27/2/2015 Is Doctors’ Dispensing better than Pharmacist Dispensing in serving the peoples’ total healthcare in Malaysia ?Read Now25/2/2015
In this article, I as a humble small town General Practitioner, will attempt to provide credible grounds as to why doctors should preserve the prescription and dispensing duties in Malaysia, and also why Dispensing Separation is not without many pitfalls. I am going to divide our discussions into 5 major topics: 1. Where do we stand now in ranking of national primary healthcares? 2. Does DS save costs of total national healthcares in Malaysia? 3. What are the other controversies around Dispensing Separation? 4. Doctors in Malaysia are not alone is questioning Dispensing Separation. UK and US studies 5. What we think is best for the healthcare of the country. 6. The consumer groups that are against DS. What is happening now? Dispensing by pharmacist is akin to the depiction here, where the horse is the doctor. The Malaysian Pharmaceutical Society have been pushing hard for the dispensing of medications to be handled solely by the Pharmacists with the tacit approval of the authorities. Things have come to the fore lately over likelihood of Pharmacy Bill which being tabled in the Parliament in April 2015; however this was recently denied by the MOH and MMC. Dispensing Separation has been hotly debated by both divides of the healthcare profession, ie. the doctors versus the pharmacists. More than 95% of the Pharmacist support it; while most of the doctors are against. This article is about doctors’ point of view : why are we against it so vehemently. The public may think that doctors are trying to protect their rice bowl; rightly so because in this critical issue is a matter of doctors survival, not commercial monopoly. However, beyond that point, there are more to the major issue than meet the eyes regarding the critical welfare in the health of the consumers. At the heart of the issue, is whether the citizens of the country will benefit from the system, or will it cause irreversible hardships for decades to come ! Is DS better that Doctors’ dispensing ?  Patient Care Malaysia 2014
12-14 August 2014 Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre Patient Care Malaysia 2014 conference is a dedicated platform for patient care professionals and other key stakeholders in Malaysia to learn and discuss strategies leading to excellence in healthcare delivery. Patient care management is increasingly important as Malaysia faces the common trends of the increasing demands of quality in healthcare delivery, rising ageing population and skyrocketing healthcare costs. Thus, healthcare providers are seeking solutions to equip themselves with the latest know-how to streamline various workflows, enhance the patient’s experience and come up with solutions to benefit the community at large. The conference will be declared open by Datuk Dr. Noor Hisham bin Abdullah, Director General, Ministry of Health Malaysia and expects an attendance of over 200 healthcare professionals from government and private healthcare facilities, and integrated care solution providers. To know more on how we can improve our patient care in Malaysia, join us at our Patient Care Malaysia 2014- 2-day conference at Sunway Pyramid Convention Centre, 12-14 August 2014. Website: http://mypatientcare.sphereconferences.com/ For more information, please contact Lily Low at +65 6848 572 / [email protected] MPCN & MPCAM meets CEO INFOMED Mr Mohan Mahintry discussing about mutual long term collaborations. This is just our first issue. More to come. In essence, the visibility of INFOMED as a quarterly healthcare publication will be raised among members of MPCN and MPCAM. We will be collaborating on events catering to medical doctors. Those who wish to receive INFOMED magazine, kindly email to [email protected] (your name, clinic and address, email and mobile number)
Here, I cordially invite every Private Practitioners ( Clinic owners and Principal physician) who have mutual agreements with TPAs to participate in these short survey. These data will assist MPCAM in our collective and collaborative initiative to engage the several stakeholders, ie. the TPAs/ MCOs/ MOH/ Bank Negara later.
These is a short survey, has 10 questions, all fitted into one page; it should not take more than 5 minutes of your time. To access the survey, Please go to the link below. Once finish please hit send. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6BNVYHR The results from these survey will help MPCAM frame a representative overview regarding Private practitioners who have mutual agreements with TPAs, and their outstanding unresolved issues and concerns. Further, it will also assist MPCAM to issue accurate statistical data on various platforms during future engagements with healthcare stakeholders, the public, or the media. I earnestly hope that all Private Practitioners will participate and answers the survey questions accurately. Thank You. Warmest Regards Always Serving Dr Low Boon Teck Administrator on behalf of TPA Action Team of MPCAM/MPCN Dr Jim Loi President of MPCAM/MPCN Terms and conditions for use of the above mentioned survey: 1. All Private medical Practitioners can participate in this survey, If they are current panels with any TPA/MCO/Insurance Company, Regardless if they are MPCAM/MPCN members or not. 2. The information provided by participating private practitioner are private and confidential. 3. No part of the survey will be divulged to any third party for any purpose. 4. The above survey are only for statistical purpose. 5. With your participations, it is automatically assumed that you allow MPCAM/MPCN to use the data for statistical purpose. Today 24th July 2013 is officially MPCAM FIRST BIRTHDAY........ It has been a year since we are officially recognized by ROS as a valid society and entity..... And it has been a tumultuous year for a new born infant crawling out from the shadows of doubts and skeptics with harsh critics(still ongoing mind you...LOL).... We started our journey with a slow perceptible crawl away from despaired lost hopes....we knows what is our known flaw...a major flaw in our medical fraternity and we seek it out to limit it's tentacles and to stop it's chronic virulence .....to stop the loss of fellowship among our brethren of our medical fraternity and reaching out to as many as possible......to let them know we are SINCERE and HONEST in our mission for UNITY...... There is and there was resistance towards our intention of UNITY and there is doubts circulating among those who had heard of us and we seek to destroy and annihilate these negative feelings and thoughts as much as we can....we are successful in that and still will continue to do so...... To eliminate what is a chronic persistent scar that has gripped our professional and noble sentiments of what being a Medical doctors are all about......TO SERVE and TO COMFORT our patients via our much struggled hard earned skills and translate that into a work of art.....A work of ART filled with COMPASSION and EMPATHY for our fellow human beings irrespective of RACE, RELIGION, GENDER and CREED........ MPCAM starts with a message from all your brothers and sisters of MPCN.....a message to tell you that YOU ARE NO LONGER ALONE AND ISOLATED.....WE care for our own and in this FAMILY of brotherhood and sisterhood we developed that lost connection from our private side to our brethrens in the public government service.....and will continue to do so in the name of TRUST and LOVE for our own..... We will continue our style of getting ourselves involved with ALL issues that plagues us and address that important agendas that was primarily affecting ALL our brethrens here in MPCN.....whether you are a private GP or a private Specialist(standalone or Private Hospital linked or attached) or you are in a Govt Service...YOU are all US........ As ONE we will step forward and ARMED ourselves with Knowledge and Wisdom complemented with a renewed sense of CONFIDENCE and FELLOWSHIP that we will be rightly aimed and primed as the best flock of Professionals that Malaysia will be very PROUD of......... Happy Birthday to ALL of YOU......... May GOD continue to Bless us and allow us to correct our mistakes with much compassion and love and to realized we are his HUMBLE servants in this life and hereafter........ Semper Fidelis........  |
