Rights and obligations of the person in charge of clinical pharmacology in Vietnam

Rights and obligations of the person in charge of clinical pharmacology in Vietnam (Internet image)

Regarding this issue, LawNet would like to answer as follows:

1. What is clinical pharmacology?

According to Clause 40, Article 2 of the Law on Pharmacy 2016, clinical pharmacology means scientific research and pharmacy practice related to consultancy on reasonable, safe, and effective use of drugs for optimizing the use of drugs.

2. Rights and obligations of the person in charge of clinical pharmacology in Vietnam

Rights and obligations of the person in charge of clinical pharmacology specified in Article 82 of the Law on Pharmacy 2016, are as follows

(1) The person in charge of clinical pharmacology at a health facility has the following rights and obligations:

- Contact patients, access medical records and prescriptions to counsel prescribers;

- Discuss with other medical practitioners about reasonable, safe, and efficacy drug prescription.

- Comments about clinical pharmacology in medical records and prescriptions; notify the Drug and Treatment Council of the health facility or the head of the health facility of conflicting opinions about drug prescription;

- Participate in medical consultations, comments on medical records and prescriptions;

- Participate in the development of Standard Treatment Guidelines; the List of drugs at the health facility; and professional procedures related to drugs;

- Participating in monitoring and supervising of adverse effects of drugs;

- Exercise other rights and perform other obligations prescribed by law.

(2) The person in charge of clinical pharmacology at a drugstore has the following rights and obligations:

- Provide consultancy and information about drugs for drug buyers and drug users;

- Provide consultancy and discuss with prescribing persons about unreasonable prescriptions of drugs;

- Participating in monitoring and supervising of adverse effects of drugs;

- Exercise other rights and perform other obligations prescribed by law.

3. Clinical pharmacology contents in Vietnam

Specifically, in Article 80 of the Law on Pharmacy 2016, the clinical pharmacology contents include:

- Providing consultancy during the compilation of List of drugs at health facilities to ensure reasonable, safe, and effective use of drugs.

- Providing consultancy and supervising the prescription and use of drugs.

- Providing information and instructions on how to use drugs for medical practitioners, drug users, and the public.

- Participate in development of procedures and guidelines for use of drugs and supervise the adherence to such procedures.

- Analyzing, assessing efficacy of drugs at health facilities.

- Participating in monitoring and supervising of adverse effects of drugs.

- Participating in scientific research related to reasonable, safe, and effective use of drugs.

4. State policies on clinical pharmacology in Vietnam

State policies on clinical pharmacology include:

- Invest in infrastructure, equipment, and human resources serving clinical pharmacology activities at state-owned health facilities; give priority to recruitment of pharmacists specialized in clinical pharmacology in state-owned health facilities.

- Invest in infrastructure, equipment, and human resources of state-owned institutions providing training in clinical pharmacology; provide funding from state budget for clinical pharmacology students.

- Organizations and individuals are encouraged by the State to participate in provision of training in clinical pharmacology, invest in infrastructure and equipment serving clinical pharmacology.

(Article 83 of the Law on Pharmacy 2016)

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