The hotel wants to halt online platforms, through which prescriptions are issued without examination of the patient. The scale of the problem is very large. The eHealth Center identified 10 doctors who exhibited between 100,000 and 400,000 e-recept per year.
– These doctors issued nearly 300 to over a 1000 prescriptions each day," said Minister Adam Niedzielski at the conference. And he added that a evidence holder, working 24 hours a day, would gotta compose 50 prescriptions in an hour.
“We are dealing with business, not an action motivated by concern for the patient,” said Adam Niedzielski.
This is why the ministry wants to introduce a regulation in the IT system. 1 doctor could issue 300 prescriptions for 80 patients within a 10-hour working day.
According to experts, amendments to the law are needed for specified changes, and restrictions may harm patients. On call, doctors may take more than 80 patients. "I do not imagine that specified an crucial change will only be made technically and not by a change of the applicable legislation. This is specified a far-reaching regulation that it should be very well thought out and discussed with appropriate environments, so as not to harm the full system," says Juliusz Krzyżanowski, lawyer from Baker McKenzie. And he asks what happens erstwhile individual truly needs a visit or a prescription, and the doctor just happens to scope the limit of the day.
– specified amendments should be made by law. This is due to Article 31 of the Polish Constitution. The restrictions proposed by the Minister constitute a deep interference in the right to practice the profession of doctor. He has the right to issue as many prescriptions as he considers appropriate," says Dr. Radosław Tyminski, legal advisor. And he adds that the problem is not that doctors issue besides many prescriptions, but that they do it illegally – without examining the patient.
“The Minister should focus on supervisory activities,” Tymiński says.
The Chief Medical Board proposes another solutions that do not interfere with the right to practice the profession. In order to reduce the mass writing of prescriptions on the Internet, the self-government considers that the conditions for certification and registration of medicinal entities, e.g. whether the medical entity has a fixed facility, should be examined. And teleporades should be limited to 30 or 40 percent of the benefits provided. This will make platform operations unprofitable.
The wellness hotel says it will surely not quit e-recpet.
– E-recept is simply a convenience for citizens. They've been exposed to billions. The ease of use, the inability to lose – all these advantages – was assessed by the Minister of Sunday.
He besides reported that he had signed a study to the D.A. on 10 doctors who committed at least 5 crimes in connection with the e-recept issue. Self-government besides conducts proceedings on the professional work of physicians.
