E-drug: Re: Information on Essential drugs and Generic prescribing
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Dear Dr. Kamran,
I think in the Netherlands the efforts to promote generic prescribing
and dispensing have had an effect.
Major reasons as I can see:
Both GPs and pharmacist earn a good living, and are therefore less
susceptible to friendly campaigns of the industry
Pharmacists are taught in university to assess generic equivalence.
The government supports pharmacists and GPs in generic
prescribing.
Personally I think that the first argument, together with the fact that
pharmacists may keep 1/3 of the difference between the price of a
generic and the price of a speciality, have done the trick.
Foppe