Correo Farmacéutico recognizes the best ideas of healthcare pharmacy
22 years have passed since the first issue of Correo Farmacéutico was published and since then, this specialized newspaper has witnessed an evolution of the pharmacy that is increasingly professionalized in its work of assisting the population.. This birthday has served as the starting signal for the FarmaAsist awards, which distinguish the healthcare work of the pharmacy.
The first edition of these awards, which have the endorsement of the General Council of Colleges of Pharmacists and with the support of Stada, Bidafarma and Sandoz, recognize programs for the development and implementation of professional services that improve the health results of the population. One of the axes of these initiatives is collaborative work with other professionals in the health care system.
The winners have collected a limited edition by the architect Pilar García Ferrer (on Instagram, @pilsferrer), at an event held in Madrid at the Carlos Amberes Foundation and led by Gema Suarez, coordinator of Correo Farmacéutico.
Next, the winners of FarmaAsist
CATEGORY: COLLEGE ORGANIZATION
- Award-winning project: Program to optimize adherence to pharmacotherapeutic treatment through personalized dosage systems (SPD) in municipalities at risk of depopulation in Cantabria
- Awarded organization: COF Cantabria
CATEGORY: INDIVIDUAL AND INSTITUTIONAL
- Award-winning project: Can we strengthen ties between the Hospital Pharmacy and the Community Pharmacy? Experience of a circuit of communication and collaboration between care areas
- Award-winning organization: Hospital Pharmacy Service of the Gregorio Marañón General Hospital
CATEGORY: SCIENTIFIC AND PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY
- Award-winning project: Pharmacological Dispensing Guide
- Awarded organization: Association of Pharmacists with Initiative
They have received their award in the presence of Celia Gómez, General Director of Professional Organization of the Ministry of Health; Raúl Pesquera, Minister of Health of Cantabria; Jesús Aguilar, President of the General Council of Official Colleges of Pharmacists of Spain; Antonio Mingorance, president of Bidafarma; Ignacio Ortín, commercial director of Sandoz; Mar Fábregas, general director of Stada, and Rosario Serrano, business director of the Health Area of Unidad Editorial, and Daniel Aparicio, editorial director of Correo Farmacéutico.
The pharmacy, an example of change
Daniel Aparicio has only been in charge of the Unidad Editorial Health Area for a month, although he recalled that he began his career at Diario Médico 25 years ago. He has pointed out that many major current health issues are still valid, “such as the importance of an inclusive Health State pact, the reform of the Framework Statute or the Medicines Law or the importance of ER being a specialty…”.
“In 2023 we continue talking about the same thing, one of the few oases in which the conversation has evolved has been Pharmacy and pharmacists, who in these years have affirmed your position as agents of change in the sector and have strengthened your presence with own voice”, Aparicio pointed out to the audience. “Correo Farmacéutico has witnessed this evolution in which you have found a space for dialogue with society that has enriched us all”.
The director of CF thanked the work of the jury, made up of Ana Dago, president of Pharmaceutical Care; Carina Escobar, president of the Platform of Patient Organizations; Domingo del Cacho, president of the territorial delegation of the Spanish Society of Health Managers in Madrid; Ana López Casero, treasurer of the General Council of Official Colleges of Pharmacists of Spain, and Vicente Baixauli, president of the Spanish Society of Clinical, Family and Community Pharmacy.
Rosario Serrano, Ignacio Ortín, Celia Gómez, Raúl Pesquera, Jesús Aguilar, Mar Fábregas, Antonio Mingorance and Daniel Aparicio. . VALERO
Later, he gave way to the Cantabrian counselor, who highlighted the raison d'être of these awards, which “add value to healthcare pharmacy, a highly valuable field in the health framework”.
“With professional services, the pharmacist develops his skills for the prevention of disease and the improvement of the health of the population, which is what we aspire to from the health organizations”, assured Pesquera, who has urged the rest of the authorities to count on pharmacists.
In particular, it has emphasized the role of the rural pharmacy, especially in nuclei at risk of depopulation. “For an elderly person on a mountain, if they do not have health care, but do not have a pharmacy nearby, it is the prelude to having to go out”.
Gender violence and digitization
The president of the Council of COF has closed the act by congratulating CF, “which has been and is a benchmark for the pharmaceutical profession”. Coinciding with Pesquera, Aguilar stressed that pharmacists have managed to make progress in the last four years in their integration into the health system: “Pharmacists and pharmacies are an essential part of the National Health System”.
Within the evolution of recent years, it has influenced the work of the profession in the social field, with initiatives “on issues of such depth as unwanted loneliness and the fight against gender violence”.
He has also highlighted the effort for digitization and the creation of platforms in collaboration with autonomous communities, Nodofarma Asistencial, Farmahelp, Cismed or the private electronic prescription. “The care axis is the backbone of everything, because that is our reason for being as health workers”.