The digital notice aims to improve patient access to up-to-date information, easily accessible and at any time. via a smartphone or tablet. But it also intends to improve proper use and facilitate understanding of the treatment through the provision of videos, additional content expressly requested by the Agency which will validate it.
The calendar
The tested system is based on the voluntary work of laboratories which responded to the ANSM’s call for applications in July and whose list will be published by the end of January 2025 at the latest. They undertake to modify their boxes to affix a QR code. accompanied by the mention “Online leaflet here” which will refer to the public drug database. The pilot phase will actually start from 1is October 2025, “the date on which sufficient modified boxes will actually be available in pharmacies” estimates the ANSM. Its duration of two years will make it possible to evaluate the use of dematerialized notices, their accessibility and the interest of new information media.
For which medications?
93 drugs should be part of the pilot phase in community pharmacies, including dry oral forms of paracetamol intended for adults, statins, vaccines or proton pump inhibitors. 474 specialties would be affected at the hospital and will see their paper instructions completely deleted. In town, the paper version will initially remain supplied in each box.
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