Letter opened offices in Andalusia Confederation Secretary General quality and modernization of the Board of Andalusia.

Mr. Secretary-General of quality and modernización:

Spain, January of 2011- the last day, 3 January 2011, underpinning other manifestations of Mr Gutiérrez in other media (Diario de Sevilla or El País Edition Andalusia), were published in “Diario Médico” declarations that, as it relates to the pharmaceutical profession and its business aspectsthey are very worrying, looking like that proposed by the Ministry of Health offers pharmacists are that “not be may reject”.

First of all, you know, under Spanish law, which bid active principles from the Administration to force to pharmacies to buy them and stores to distribute them, it is contrary to the Spanish law, which should also subsume all the Andalusian legislation. And the reference in those statements that the Administration will stay with discount for volume purchases is even suspected. We could cite a number of regulations, laws, Royal Decrees, ministerial orders, regional laws, common sense dictates, even rulings of various courts, whether Spanish or European, that they would clearly support the position of CEOFA, that is, on the illegality of the proposals made for tender early assets.

Let us that we send you the way that counseling is crazy; give it a twist more pharmacies, as the Manager of the SAS, will be expensive, both each pharmacist and society. Really what worries us most is that both the universalization of the provision and the cohesion of the national system of health is breaking with the proposals of the SAS,

You as Secretary General of quality and modernization, to propose measures of tender forget that quality and modernization which calls his Department should be projected to the productive fabric of Andalusia, and him calling the Administration is that he rationalized his performance, not to ruin the business structure of their territory.

With the implementation of the measures adopted at the RRDDLL 4 and 8 of 2010 it has descapitalizado the pharmacy. spending on drugs, keeping the number of recipes in continuous growth parameters, it has fallen in Andalusia from June to October 2010 (for 2009) an average of 7.10% according to the Observatory of the medicine for Andalusia October 2010. But the volume of work in pharmacies is greater. For sale by auction of evils, that counseling is “collapse” proposing to tighten over a situation that is outrageously dangerous for the sector. It seems that the general secretariat to propose such a measure, is not aware of the damage they cause in the quality of care, as well as the enterprise mess and the consequences that levels of investment will be screened on Andalusia.

On the other hand, as recognized in the statements of the 3rd, against its measures for containment of expenditure on medicines a barrage of resources fall. Not only the pharmaceutical industry will make use of its extent, but that the entire stand, among them CEOFA. If the Ministry of health intends to actually carry out his system of active policy via tender, will not have no choice, given his obvious and blatant illegality, that both carried the Spanish courts as Europeans. It is then when see who give reason.

Finally, the path to be followed by the Ministry to “adjust the pharmaceutical expenditure” without considering other measures that impact on the demand side is exhausted. It is a path without return, not only does not contain the expenditure that will increase the indebtedness, in the same line occurring currently with hospital costs. And this is a reality that you know well.

CEOFA