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PCPs oppose recommendations of prescription report

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Oct. 28, 2024 09:46

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Primary care physicians, who are affiliated with the Zielonogórskie Alliance Federation, are opposed to the recommendations contained in the published report of the Prescription and Fulfillment Team. Despite the team's twelve-month effort to streamline the prescription system, they say, the document lacks key changes, such as the automatic determination of drug reimbursement levels, which were supposed to reduce bureaucracy. In addition, experts point out that patients could lose access to reimbursement due to errors resulting from a more complicated system.

The main objection raised by doctors is that the proposed changes will not only fail to simplify work, but will actually lengthen it. Experts from the Federation Zielonogórski Porozumienie Zielonogórskie stress that the new solutions will introduce additional tasks, such as filling out questionnaires, which will take up doctors' time spent treating patients.

- The report proposes a system in which a doctor, after writing a prescription, must answer a series of questions, based on which the system will determine the level of payment for the drug. Meanwhile, we expected this process to be automated, without involving the doctor. Unfortunately, the team was not up to the task," says Tomasz Zieliński, vice president o...

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