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APhA, NABP to Develop Voluntary Community Pharmacy Accreditation Program
The American Pharmacists Association and the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy are partnering to develop a voluntary accreditation program for community pharmacies, expected to be operational in 2012. The standards development process will use a consensus-based approach that will involve a wide array of pharmacy and other stakeholders.
This is an issue that NCPA has been tracking for many years, and our current position is that such additional accreditation for state-licensed, retail pharmacies is duplicative and unnecessary. NCPA recognizes the individual state boards of pharmacy as exclusively responsible for governing and regulating the practice of pharmacy and as such, opposes efforts that attempt to apply burdensome accreditation requirements to community pharmacies. At this time NCPA questions the need for community pharmacy accreditation, but also wants to be prepared should marketplace trends shift with demand from payers and others.
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