Legislation 1 - Human medicines regulations Flashcards
(61 cards)
Who is the private healthcare provided for, available to, funded by?
- businesses and individual practitioners
- available to all who pay
- funded by patient - insurance
What are the cares in both the NHS and private healthcare? (3)
- primary care
- secondary care
- tertiary care
what are examples of primary care? (4)
- GPs
- dentists
- community pharmacists
- optometrists
what are examples of secondary care?
hospitals
what are examples of tertiary care? (2)
specialities
- neurosurgery
- transplant
What are the healthcares before the NHS? (3)
- doctors
- hospitals
- national health insurance act 1911
what is access to a doctor like? (2)
- free to workers on low pay
- charge to spouses, children and workers on higher pay
what is access to hospitals like? (2,2)
Dispensaries
- free (need letter of recommendation)
- small charges (poorer people may be reimbursed)
Voluntary hospitals
- free medical care for the poor
- small charges (what the patient can pay)
what is the national health insurance act 1911 like?
gave statutory recognition to dispensing by, or under the supervision of a pharmacist
What is the national health service (NHS)? + date
comprehensive health service to secure the improvement in the physical and mental health of the people . . . and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness
- 5th july 1948…Aneurin Bevan (minister of health)
what does the NHS aim to provide?
healthcare based on need, not the ability to pay
why did we need the medicines act?
before the medicines act 1968
- most medicines were regulated as poisons with no control over the marketing of new medicines
What is the act in 1851?
arsenic act
What is the act in 1868?
pharmacy act - poisons list
What is the act in 1908?
poisons and pharmacy act
What is the act in 1925?
therapeutic substances act (manufacture)
What is the act in 1933?
pharmacy and poisons act
What is the act in 1941?
pharmacy and medicines act (composition)
What is the act in 1947?
penicillin act
What is the act in 1953?
therapeutic substances (prevention of misuses) (manufacture and supply)
what is the therapeutic substances act?
1925
- Medicinal products were increasingly coming from a chemical origin rather than a plant source
what does the therapeutic substance act provide a form of licensing for? (4)
- inspection of manufacturing sites
- personnel suitability
- record keeping
- labelling requirements introduced
What was thalidomide like? (4)
- 1961
- marketed as safe sleeping tablet and antiemetic
- prescribed for morning sickness in pregnancy
- increased babies with phocomelia (hands feet attached to body or reduced limbs)
what is the committee on safety of drugs? (2)
- agreement by ministers of health - look at the safety of new drugs
- products already on the market - granted a provisional licence of right