Giorlandino (Uap): “The rule that opens up the possibility of carrying out analyzes to pharmacies is illegitimate”
The president's statements on behalf of Italian private clinics and analysis laboratories
ROME – “We cannot stand by inertly faced with the illegitimate inclusion in a law decree of a provision (art. 17 in the text of the draft circulating in the press) which does not meet the requirements of necessity and urgency and which the Government had already included in the Simplifications DDL at the end of last March”. This is what Maria Stella Giorlandino, president of the UAP, declares on behalf of Italian private clinics and analysis laboratories.
Giorlandino reacts to this real coup by the Government, which does not wait for the ordinary parliamentary process underway for the examination of the Simplifications Bill, and introduces in the decree law cuts waiting lists , the rule that opens up the possibility for pharmacies to carry out laboratory analysis services, no longer limited to self-monitoring tests alone.
“Article 17 of the text of the soon-to-be-launched decree law, appears to be clearly unconstitutional due to the lack of the requirements of necessity and urgency and would provide, among other things, the possibility of carrying out pharmacies of laboratory analysis services in addition to those of the simple self-monitoring allowed up to now. This power given to pharmacies with the law decree which is firmly opposed, would transform pharmacies into analysis laboratories even though the pharmacist does not own them. the cognitive and instrumental toolsto transform the simple finding deriving from the blood or genetic sampling into a report accompanied by units of measurement, reference intervals and decision limits, elements that are required, together with the guarantee and control of the analytical quality , exclusively to laboratory medicine professionals and therefore to public and private laboratories” he explains.
“This will lead to chaos if the Government does not withdraw from this unmotivated and unconstitutional choice which would lead to absurd confusion for patients and clinicians regarding the results of the analyzes which can only be carried out by the competent analysis laboratories, to the sole detriment of public and private health, the rule about to come into force by decree would allow pharmacies to access, by decree, the power to provide services that laboratories have so far carried out after having followed and certified programs. of specific training, following complex authorization and accreditation procedures, after having adapted its premises to the best hygienic, health as well as technological and logistical standards, with important economic and human resources investments”.
Maria Stella Giorlandino, on behalf of the UAP, also trusts in the careful evaluation of the Government which firmly invites to eliminate from the legislative decree – imminently approved – regarding the reduction of waiting lists the ‘Urgent provisions to promote the provision of pharmacy services’ which, in addition to being unjust on the merits, are absolutely devoid of the indispensable constitutional requirements of necessity and urgency, given that they postpone the possibility of providing laboratory health services until the necessary investigations part of the competent territorial health administrations regarding the verification of the existence of hygienic-health requirements even in premises separate from the pharmaceutical headquarters.