Inspection teams conducting inspections of fulfillment of GPP requirements by pharmacies in Vietnam

Specifically, according to Article 13 of the Circular No. 02/2018/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, an inspection team shall include:

Team leader, secretary and other members who are representatives of relevant pharmaceutical agencies according to decision of the Director of the Provincial Department of Health. Each inspection team shall include no more than 04 members.

A member of the inspection team must satisfy the following requirements:

- he/she must obtain an undergraduate degree or Bachelor’s degree or intermediate professional education diploma in pharmacy or medicine or higher;

- he/she has attended training courses in GPP standards and inspection of fulfillment of GPP requirements, and has a thorough grasp of GPP standards;

- he/she must be honest, objective and strictly comply with inspection rules and law regulations on inspection as well as have no conflict of interest with the inspected pharmacy as prescribed in Clause 3 of this Article;

The team leader must hold an undergraduate degree or higher and have at least 02 years of experience in pharmacy management.

Concurrently, Circular No. 02/2018/TT-BYT also stipulates principles for assessing conflicts of interest, specifically, member of the inspection team is assessed to have conflicts of interest with the inspected pharmacy if:

- he/she has worked for the inspected pharmacy in the past five years;

- he/she has provided consulting services for the inspected pharmacy in the past five years;

- he/she is receiving financial benefits associated with the inspected pharmacy;

- his/her spouse, child, parent, sibling or parent-in-law is working at the inspected pharmacy.

View more details at the Circular No. 02/2018/TT-BYT of the Ministry of Health of Vietnam, effective from March 08, 2018.

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