Conferenza annuale Federfarma Lombardia: focus sul potenziale delle farmacie dei servizi in tema di prevenzione vaccinale
(Adnkronos) - La farmacia dei servizi e le prospettive future dell'evoluzione in atto della sanità in Lombardia sono stati i temi al centro dell’appuntamento annuale di Federfarma Lombardia, realizzato insieme a The European House-Ambrosetti, con il contributo non condizionante di GSK, MSD, Pfizer e Teva. L’evento, intitolato "Verso una piena attuazione della farmacia dei servizi. Quale contributo al miglioramento della qualità di vita dei cittadini” ha messo in luce il potenziale delle farmacie dei servizi in tema di prevenzione vaccinale.
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00:00 The Pharmacy of Services and the future prospects of the evolution of health in Lombardy have been the themes at the center of the annual meeting of Federpharma Lombardia,
00:13 held together with European House Ambrosetti, with the non-conditioning contribution of GSK, MSD, Pfizer and Tera.
00:21 The event, entitled "Towards a full implementation of the Pharmacy of Services, which contributes to the improvement of the quality of life of citizens", highlighted the fundamental role played by pharmacies.
00:32 The data show that there are 800,000 patients in Lombardy who go to the pharmacy every day,
00:40 and 184% of patients go to the pharmacy once a month. So the role is important as a lever for the programming and organization of vaccination throughout the year.
00:53 I do not think only of when the need for vaccination is increased, so at the end of the influenza season, I think of anti-influenza and anti-covid vaccinations,
01:04 or the new vaccination that we as a company are bringing against the respiratory and syncytial virus,
01:11 but I also think of vaccines for adults that can and must be de-seasoned, such as the vaccine against the herpes zoster virus.
01:20 In an increasingly connected and close to people health, the regional network of pharmacies, with 14,000 members and more than 3,000 structures,
01:27 has become an increasingly important reference point for Lombard citizens, not only from the point of view of care and services, but also of prevention.
01:39 I think that vaccinating in the pharmacy, of course in agreement with the Lombardy region, is very important.
01:47 Vaccinations in Italy, in pharmacies, started much later than in many other European nations. I remember Portugal, which even vaccinated pharmacists 15 years ago.
01:58 Now we do it, we started doing it during a sad period in our history, which was the covid.
02:04 We can do this type of vaccination, we can vaccinate people against influenza, but how important would it be to vaccinate them, for example, against herpes zoster,
02:13 against HPV, against antipyremic, maybe even for tetanus.
02:18 I think that if we want to do prevention in our country, prevention in the pharmacy, and also in this region, we must increase the possibility that pharmacists can vaccinate.
02:32 To win the challenge of the expansion of the vaccination coverage of the general population,
02:36 with particular reference to the elderly, the frail, the chronic patients, pharmacies can play an important role, as shown by the case of Marche.
02:45 Governor Acquaroli has taken the opportunity to use pharmacists to increase the vaccination coverage,
02:53 and I would say that the experiment, because this is the experiment, has had a very important success.
02:59 What is important to emphasize is the fact that the citizen appreciates this ability to choose the moment of vaccination.
03:08 It is evident that pharmacies with their extended schedules, pharmacists always present on the territory, Saturday, Sunday, holidays, any day of the year,
03:16 are an extraordinary opportunity to raise the vaccination coverage of our country, which objectively is not at fantastic levels.
03:24 fantastic!