Today, we are living in a shared economy era. From the earliest shared bikes, shared cars, shared charging treasures to shared umbrellas, and even shared gyms... It seems that there is nothing in the world that can't be shared. No, just after the New Year, Ali has a "shared pharmacist."
On March 7th, Ali Health announced the launch of the “Shared Pharmacist†product, a third-party pharmacist online consultation service for the social pharmacy open platform. It is understood that the pharmacist service team is self-built for Ali Health, with about 3,000 licensed pharmacists, daily from Service online to consult customers from 8:30 to 24:00.
What does an occupational pharmacist do?
As we all know, China is a big country in drug consumption, but people are relatively poor at how to use drugs safely and rationally.
According to statistics, about 30% of the world's annual deaths are related to irrational use of drugs, and at least 200,000 people die from improper medication every year in China.
In order to strengthen the occupational access control for pharmaceutical technicians, ensure the quality of medicines, and ensure the safety and effectiveness of people's medications, the state stipulates that medical practitioners should take occupational pharmacist examinations. At the same time, pharmacies must be equipped with licensed pharmacists to effectively reduce and stop the patient's medication risk. However, at present, the shortage of professional pharmacists in China is still a problem.
Inadequate staffing of professional pharmacists in China
According to data released by the Center for Licensed Pharmacists of the State Food and Drug Administration, as of January 31, 2017, the number of licensed pharmacists nationwide was about 340,000. As of the end of 2016, the total number of retail pharmacies in China was 448,000.
In February 2017, the State Council issued the National Food Safety Plan for the “13th Five-Year Planâ€, clearly stipulating that by 2020, the number of licensed pharmacists per 10,000 population will exceed 4, and all major retail pharmacies will be qualified as licensed pharmacists and licensed pharmacists at business hours. Guide the rational use of drugs.
If you want to achieve this goal, unless a major manager works overtime every day to guide the rational use of drugs (unrealistic), or each retail pharmacy has at least 2 licensed pharmacists on shifts, which requires nearly 900,000 licensed pharmacists, the industry estimates licensed pharmacists The gap reached 100,000 people.
“Sharing Pharmacists†helps to allocate resources reasonably
It can be said that professional pharmacists decide the life and death of retail pharmacies! How to fill the gap of occupational pharmacists and reduce the risk of drug use for patients leads people to think that sharing the economy has become a breakthrough in the rational use of resources.
Insiders said that the essence of the sharing economy is actually a sentence, that is, weakening the "ownership" and emphasizing the "right to use." Whether it's resources or skills, the owners are not fully utilized because of privatization, and now they are getting more value.
From this point of view, Ali Health's launch of "shared pharmacists" is conducive to more scientific and rational distribution of China's nervous professional pharmacists resources, effectively guide patients to rational use of drugs, and promote customers' trust and goodwill towards pharmacies.
Liu Hongbin, head of Ali Health Customer Experience, said that at present, Ali Health will provide third-party “shared pharmacist†services to social pharmacy store owners free of charge. The pharmacies of offline pharmacies can consult online licensed pharmacists to help offline customers to solve drug consultations in a timely manner. .
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