The South African Pharmacy Council has, in a Government Gazette notice, published rules relating to the services for which a pharmacist may levy a fee and guidelines for levying such fee or fees, writes Wyndham Hartley in LegalBrief Policy Watch.
“A pharmacist must ensure, when a service for which he or she wishes to levy a fee or fees involves the supply of medicine, whether supplied on a prescription or not, that the patient for whom such medicine is supplied is furnished with adequate advice or information for the safe and effective use of the medicine(s) supplied by him or her, whether such medicine(s) is supplied personally or by any other means,” the notice says.
Among other things, the notice also says services for which a pharmacist may levy a fee or fees “may not be advertised in any manner that is not factually correct; or is misleading; or harms the dignity or honour of the pharmacy profession; disparages another pharmacist; is calculated to suggest that his or her professional skill or ability or his or her facilities or that of the pharmacy owner, as the case may be, for practising his or her profession or rendering the service(s) concerned are superior to those of other pharmacists”.
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