The price of medicines will no longer be required to be indicated on the packaging, according to a decree-law approved this Thursday by the Council of Ministers and aimed at reducing contextual costs.
The Decree-Law changes the legal regimes for drugs for human use and pharmacies, and is intended to ensure transparency of information and guarantee “compliance with pricing rules applicable to all participants in the drug market.”
The goal, according to the diploma, is to ensure that “information on the public sale price of drugs continues to be provided to the consumer at the time of dispensing from manufacturer pharmacies.”
At a press conference following the meeting of the Council of Ministers, which took place in Porto and which was the last with full executive power, the Minister of the Presidency Mariana Vieira da Silva said that the decree-law aims to facilitate and simplify legislation in the field of medicines.
“The price of the medicine is no longer necessarily indicated in the medicine cabinet, which significantly reduces the contextual costs, taking into account mainly that the price set there is usually not the one paid by citizens with different levels of public participation,” said Mariana Vieira da Silva.
The Diploma states that in order to clarify the amount of reimbursement by the National Health Service, assessing the efforts made to ensure people have access to medicines, the Diploma also provides for the obligation to include in the invoice or receipt the sale price of public access to medicines, the percentage of government reimbursement and the amount actually paid by the user.
“It also aims to ensure greater participation in pharmacy transfer processes to organizations with better knowledge of local realities and needs, establishing that the views of local authorities should be sought before submitting any request to the competent regulatory authority,” the document says. document.
Mariana Vieira da Silva said that a diploma had also been approved to regulate the ways in which radiological resources are used in health care settings, subject to the application of the standards set out in the directives for radiological uses other than those used on a small scale in health care. establishments.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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