Exemption of a plant medicinal product from mandatory reporting to ZSMOPL [Integrated System for the Monitoring of Trade in Medicinal Products]

1 April 2019 Warsaw, 1st April 2019 On 28th March 2019, the Announcement of the Minister of Health appeared regarding the exclusion of plant medicinal products from reporting to the Integrated System for the Monitoring of Trade in Medicinal Products (so-called ZSMOPL) Only this type of drugs has been granted a voluntary reporting by the Ministry of Health....

Constant decline in the number of pharmacies, especially in rural areas

3 December 2018 In the period from December 2017 to December 2018, the number of pharmacies decreased by 214, of which there are 54 less compared to the last month.  PASMI is anxiously monitoring information about the constantly decreasing number of pharmacies, in particular in the villages and towns with less than 100,000 inhabitants. The problem concerns as...

PASMI a contents partner of “Uwaga na leki – grypa i przeziębienie” [Be careful of drugs – flue and cold]

9 November 2018 PASMI Polish Association of Self Medication Industry, as a contents partner, takes part in the second edition of the campaign of the Supreme Pharmaceutical Chamber [NIA] and the National Drug Institute [NIL] titled “Uwaga na leki – grypa i przeziębienie” [Be careful of drugs – flu and cold], devoted to flue and cold. The indicated...

Disciplinary Court on the Code of Good Practices of Advertising Food Supplements under the leadership of PASMI

8 November 2018 PASMI Polish Association of Self Medication Industry, as of 6 November this year took over the chairmanship and administrative support of the Disciplinary Court established under the Code of Good Practices of Advertising Food Supplements.  The chairmanship of the Court is rotary  and performed by organizations that have signed the Code. PASMI will play this...

The Ministry of Health confirms that it is not working on the introduction of a drug advertising tax

31 October 2018 PASMI Polish Association of Self Medication Industry received a written confirmation from the Ministry of Health that the Ministry is not currently carrying out analytical work on the possibility of introducing an additional tax on drug advertising for companies of the pharmaceutical sector. The Ministry of Health’s reply is a response to a query that...

PASMI on 2018-2022 National Drug Policy

30 October 2018 PASMI Polish Association of Self Medication Industry supports the decision of the Ministry of Health to create a strategic document whose task is to provide patients with wide access to effective and safe medicines.  During the works on the Drug Policy, PASMI also called for the deletion of provisions regarding food supplements, because these products...