[india-drug] Workshop: Good Dispensing & Store Management Practices

["DSPRUD" <dsprud2005@yahoo.com>]

Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs 
and Office of the WHO Representative to India
Announce
 
Training of Trainers? Workshop on 
Good Dispensing and Store Management Practices
August 21-23, 2006 ? New Delhi
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Background
 
Drugs are dispensed at the cutting edge level of interface between the public health system and the patients.  Availability or lack of availability of drugs brings either credit or discredit to the public health system.  A chronic and widespread shortage of commonly used drugs despite adequate funding, procurement and distribution is very common.  On the other hand there are surpluses of a significant number of commonly used drugs which usually mean that quantities have been overestimated.  Sometimes overestimates are compounded by poor selection; the drugs involved are not appropriate to the morbidity pattern of the population.  
 
Districts are required to estimate their own supply needs within a given budget as part of the decentralization of planning and budgeting activities. The shift from a push (where supply needs are determined centrally) to a pull system (where supply needs are determined locally) requires districts to determine the quantities of essential supplies required to deliver the essential services within their budget allocation. 
 
In the above context, the proper management of drug supply assumes paramount importance in the dispensation of health care.  To ensure constant availability of drugs and medical supplies at public health facilities, it is of the utmost importance that stores at health facilities are organized efficiently.  The three-day training programme at New Delhi gives a unique opportunity to participants to enhance their skills in managing drug supply.

Participants

30 participants :
Medical Officers in charge of hospitals medical stores and hospital pharmacies and Pharmacists from these institutions from the Centre and the States as also from Pharmacy Councils.  A limited number of community pharmacists who have experience will also be considered for inclusion if they are sponsored by the State Pharmacy Councils.
 
Objectives
 
The objectives of the workshop will be to impart training to master trainers so that in turn they carry out similar training programmes in their States. 
 
1.      To identify problems in dispensing and plan useful interventions to improve patient?s knowledge about correct drug use. 
2.      Characterize drug quantification problems in quantitative and qualitative ways.
3.      Methods for quantification of drug needs.
4.      Identify problems in store management and plan useful interventions to improve record keeping.
5.      Good inventory control methods.

 Course design
 
This 3 days workshop will consists of presentations, discussions and group activities.  The course will be highly participatory and would facilitate interchange of skills and experience among course members. 
 
Course content
 
Major topics include: 
    * Laws and regulations pertaining to drugs 
    * Registration and re-registration of the pharmacists 
    * Role of pharmacists in promotion of rational use of drugs 
    * Good dispensing practices 
    * Quantification of drug needs 
    * Inventory management 
    * Distribution of drugs 
    * Managing drug stores 
    * ABC & VED analysis 
    * Role of computers in stores management 
 
Course dates
 
August 21-23, 2006
 
Fees and costs
 
The organizers will bear the following costs:
·        Tuition fee including books and materials
·        Travel to and fro by 3rd AC
·        Accommodation (shared accommodation)
·        Three meals a day. 
·        Coffee and tea during course breaks
·        Field trips

Application

Applicants should complete the course application form and have them forwarded through their hospital superintendents/ director of medical stores or State Pharmacy Councils.  
 
Applications must reach the DSPRUD office on or before July 20, 2006.
 
Coordinators

Dr. Sangeeta Sharma
Dr. Usha Gupta, 
Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs (DSPRUD)
Delhi Administration Dispensary (Near Mamta Public School), Vasundhara Enclave, Delhi ?110096.
Tel: 011- 22612669
Tele/Fax :011-22612558
E-mail :<mailto:%20usha_gupta2@yahoo.com> dsprud2005@yahoo.com  
 
Confirmation
Course space is allocated as soon as the application is received.  Enrollment for the course is limited to encourage maximum participant involvement.  To ensure the participant?s space is officially reserved, DSPRUD must receive the completed application before July 20, 2006. 
 
Selected candidates will be informed by July 27, 2005.  Candidates must confirm their participation by August 5, 2005 otherwise course space will be allocated to next candidate in the waiting list.

 
COURSE APPLICATION FORM
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Training of Trainers? Workshop On
Good Dispensing and Store Management Practices
August 21-23, 2006

 
Last Name                            First name

Present Designation and office address



Nationality                   Date of birth          Sex

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Education:
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Work Experience related to the Good Dispensing Practices and Store Management Practices (list current work first):

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Please briefly describe your major responsibilities in your current position (include decision making, supervision and planning responsibilities, if any).


 
Have you received any special training in any aspect of Good Dispensing Practices and Store Management Practices?

 
How will this workshop help you improve your present work?



 
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Forwarded by

Name of the Head of the Organization
where the pharmacist is working: __________________________
 
 
Signature :_____________________________________

 
Mail to:
Delhi Society for Promotion of Rational Use of Drugs (DSPRUD), 
Delhi Administration Dispensary, 2nd Floor
Vasundhara Enclave, Delhi-110096. 
Email: dsprud2005@yahoo.com