60 años del Tratado de Roma ¡Feliz cumpleaños!
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El debate sobre la dispensación de algunos medicamentos exclusivamente desde los Servicios de Farmacia Hospitalaria, sin intervención de las oficinas de farmacia, ha cobrado actualidad tras la publicación, por la SEFH, de su informe “El valor de la Farmacia Hospitalaria”. En este se aporta básicamente dos ideas para defender la dispensación hospitalaria: en primer lugar,... Read More
Faus & Moliner participates at the course “Basic notions of Administrative Procedure for the departments of Regulatory Affairs and Market Access” organized by the University of Barcelona
Xavier Moliner, Eduard Rodellar and Juan Suárez have given courses on the administrative procedure and its special impact in the pharmaceutical area
In the course, organized by the School of Continuing Education of the University of Barcelona, the main aspects related to the administrative procedure have been addressed, with particular emphasis on all the most relevant novelties introduced by the recent Law 39/2015 on Common Administrative Procedure of the Public Administration. The speakers have given an eminently... Read More
Dispensación hospitalaria: cuestión de dinero
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EEl debate sobre la dispensación de algunos medicamentos exclusivamente desde los Servicios de Farmacia Hospitalaria, sin intervención de las oficinas de farmacia, ha cobrado actualidad tras la publicación, por la SEFH, de su informe “El valor de la Farmacia Hospitalaria”. En este se aporta básicamente dos ideas para defender la dispensación hospitalaria: en primer lugar,... Read More
El SNS actúa como las aseguradoras privadas
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En España, el derecho a la protección de la salud no está reconocido, en la Constitución, como un derecho fundamental, sino como un principio rector de la política social y económica. El Tribunal Constitucional se ha pronunciado al respecto en múltiples ocasiones. La última, al valorar el recurso interpuesto contra el Real Decreto-Ley 16/2012, en... Read More
Main features of the new Fenin Code of Ethics
New Code of Ethics for the Spanish Healthcare Technology Sector transposing the provisions of the current “Code of Ethical Business Practice” of MedTech Europe
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Background On 21 December 2016, the general assembly of Fenin approved the new Code of Ethics for the Healthcare Technology Sector in Spain, transposing the current “Code of Ethical Business Practice” of MedTech Europe, the European association of the health technology industry. The main objective of the new Code, which will come into force on... Read More
Purchase of biological medicinal products: reference to the active ingredient is valid for defining batches
Judgment No. 445/2016 of 19 October issued by the Administrative Chamber of the High Court of Justice of the Basque Country
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Whilst confusion persists concerning how to reasonably organise the purchase of biological and biosimilar medicinal products in hospitals, this judgment offers a certain amount of clarity and is worth particular note. The case in hand was initiated following a call for tenders as part of a Framework Agreement (FA) to supply epoetin alfa. Hospira appealed... Read More
Price comparison must take into account the different characteristics of shops
Judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union of 8 February 2017 (Case C-562/15)
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Background The judgment in question corresponds to a widespread advertising campaign in France, as part of which Carrefour Hypermarchés compared the prices of 500 leading brand products in its shops and in the shops of competitors, including those belonging to ITM Alimentaire International. The campaign showed that products sold by the latter were systematically more... Read More
Waiver to the interests for late payment by signing up to the supplier payment plan may or may not be valid
In its judgment of 16 February 2017, the Court of Justice of the European Union leaves the door open for the national court to verify whether the aforementioned waiver was freely agreed to
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Between 2008 and 2013, several companies supplied goods and provided services to medical establishments forming part of the Health Service of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, which failed to pay for those goods and services. Those companies then assigned the debts at issue to IOS Finance, a factoring company that would later... Read More
Countdown for adapting to the new European personal data protection framework
The Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) publishes a range of guidelines on adapting to the General Data Protection Regulation
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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Regulation (EU) 2016/679, is the new regulatory framework adopted by the European Union on the protection of personal data. Although it was published in May 2016, it will not fully come into force until May 2018. Thereafter, both Organic Law 15/1999, on Personal Data Protection and Royal Decree 1720/2007,... Read More
Transferencias de valor e impuestos, cuestión de calidad
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Lo que está sucediendo con las transferencias de valor de la industria a los profesionales sanitarios me lleva a pensar en el equilibrio entre beneficio y riesgo que siempre hay que buscar en el mundo del medicamento; y en la necesidad de no olvidar otro elemento que también es esencial en cualquier medicamento: su calidad.... Read More