The COFM hoped that the informative health bill will help improve adherence to treatment.
Madrid, September 2011.- delivery of the health bill information patients cared for by the Madrid health service is a success and will generate significant benefits for Madrid health and also for the health of patients, according to the Association official pharmacists of Madrid (COFM).
The initiative announced on Monday by the Minister of health of the community of Madrid, Javier Fernández-Lasquetty, help generate a greater understanding of people about the cost of health care received, which, undoubtedly, will result in the most efficient use of resources and better adherence to treatments.
Since the Ministry of health submitted the draft to COFM, Madrid pharmacists have supported the measure to understand that it is a first step to involve citizens in the great challenge of the self-management of health and the rational use of public resources.
The extension of the model of information of healthcare costs has to generate in the citizen greater responsibility and awareness of the services they receive, and therefore, drugs that are financed through public prescription dispensed in charge of the national system of health, as well as medications given in hospitals.
For the President of the COFM, Alberto GarcÃa Romero, far is very positive because it ends with the widespread misperception that health care is free. In addition, hope that information will also improve adherence to treatment with drugs and reduce the high number of medicines without using that they deposited in pharmacies, one of the main challenges of the Spanish health system ”.
