WELCOME to Pharmacy Daily's weekly comment feature. This week's contributor is Catherine Koetz, Director - Healthcare, GS1 Australia
Patient safety through traceability
The issue of patient safety has been a growing concern worldwide, particularly regarding counterfeit medicines. In recent decades, the prevalence of counterfeit medicines has escalated, posing a significant threat to global health, we even see these in Australia despite our very heavily controlled supply chains.
Implementing global data standards and traceability systems has helped to mitigate this risk, while at the same time supporting other improvements to how medicines are managed across global supply chains.
These measures safeguard the integrity of the supply chain while also giving visibility to the product available in the market and helping to manage the overall supply chain better.
By using a foundation of standards and establishing a robust framework for tracking and tracing medications throughout the supply chain there can be benefits for patients/consumers, pharmacists, wholesalers, manufacturers and government.
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