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GOOD PHARMACY PRACTICE (GPP) GUIDELINES

Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) is defined by the WHO as a patient-centered approach that emphasizes optimal, evidence-based care through established quality standards. Key requirements include prioritizing patient welfare, promoting rational prescribing, and ensuring effective communication among healthcare professionals. Pharmacists are encouraged to maintain competence, engage in lifelong learning, and actively contribute to improving healthcare systems and public health.

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GOOD PHARMACY PRACTICE (GPP) GUIDELINES

Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) is defined by the WHO as a patient-centered approach that emphasizes optimal, evidence-based care through established quality standards. Key requirements include prioritizing patient welfare, promoting rational prescribing, and ensuring effective communication among healthcare professionals. Pharmacists are encouraged to maintain competence, engage in lifelong learning, and actively contribute to improving healthcare systems and public health.

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GOOD PHARMACY

PRACTICE (GPP)
GUIDELINES
Definition

• According to WHO,
GPP is the practice of pharmacy that responds to the needs of
the people who use the pharmacists’ services to provide
optimal, evidence-based care. To support this practice it is
essential that there be an established national framework of
quality standards and guidelines.
Requirements of Good Pharmacy
Practice

• GPP requires that a pharmacist’s first concern in all settings is


the welfare of patients.
• GPP requires that the core of the pharmacy activity is to help
patients make the best use of medicines.
• GPP requires the promotion of rational and economic
prescribing, as well as dispensing.
Conti…
• GPP requires that the objective of each element of pharmacy service is relevant to the
patient, is clearly defined and is effectively communicated to all those involved.
Multidisciplinary collaboration among health-care professionals is the key factor for
successfully improving patient safety.
• In satisfying these requirements, the following conditions are necessary:
• the well-being of patients should be the main philosophy underlying practice, even
though it is accepted that ethical and economic factors are also important;
• Pharmacists should have input into decisions about the use of medicines. A system
should exist that enables pharmacists to report and to obtain feedback about adverse
events, medicine-related problems, medication errors, misuse or medicine abuse,
defects in product quality or detection of counterfeit products. This reporting may
include information about medicine use supplied by patients or health professionals,
either directly or through pharmacists;
• The relationship with other health professionals, particularly
physicians, should be established
• The relationship between pharmacists should be one of colleagues
seeking to improve pharmacy service, rather than acting as
competitors;
• The pharmacist should be aware of essential medical and
pharmaceutical information (i.e. diagnosis, laboratory test results
and medical history) about each patient.
• The pharmacist needs evidence-based, unbiased, comprehensive,
objective and current information about therapeutics, medicines
and other health-care products in use, including potential
environmental hazard caused by disposal of medicines’ waste;
Conti…

• Pharmacists in each practice setting should accept personal


responsibility for maintaining and assessing their own
competence throughout their professional working lives
• Educational programs for entry into the profession should
appropriately address both current and foreseeable changes
in pharmacy practice;
• National standards of GPP should be specified and should be
adhered to by practitioners.
Setting standards for good
pharmacy practice

• It is recommended that national pharmacy professional


associations consider the following roles, functions and
activities for pharmacists, where appropriate
Role 1: Prepare, obtain, store, secure,
distribute, administer, dispense and
dispose of medical products
• Function A: Prepare extemporaneous medicine preparations and
medical products
• Function B: Obtain, store and secure medicine preparations and
medical products
• Function C: Distribute medicine preparations and medical products
• Function D: Administration of medicines, vaccines and other
injectable medications
• Function E: Dispensing of medical products
• Function F: Dispose of medicine preparations and medical
products
Role 2: Provide effective
medication therapy management

• Function A: Assess patient health status and needs


• Function B: Manage patient medication therapy
• Function C: Monitor patient progress and outcomes
• Function D: Provide information about medicines and health-
related issues
Role 3: Maintain and improve
professional performance

• Function A: Plan and implement continuing


professional development strategies to improve
current and future performance
Pharmacists should perceive continuing education as being
lifelong and be able to demonstrate evidence of continuing
education or continuing professional development to improve
clinical knowledge, skills and performance
Role 4: Contribute to improve
effectiveness of the health-care
system and public health
• Function A: Disseminate evaluated information about
medicines and various aspects of self-care
• Function B: Engage in preventive care activities and services
• Function C: Comply with national professional obligations,
guidelines and legislations
• Function D: Advocate and support national policies that
promote improved health outcomes

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