Today, the first concerted electronic prescription of MUFACE in this autonomous city has been dispensed in a pharmacy in Melilla. A mutualist attached to a concerted option entity, after obtaining her usual prescription with the e-prescription, has acquired her medication through this new system. The event was attended by the provincial director of MUFACE in Melilla, Pilar Miralles, the secretary of the Official College of Pharmacists of Melilla, Inmaculada Arroyo, and, on behalf of Adeslas Melilla, Salomón Benzaquen.
The development and implementation of the concerted electronic prescription has been the result of the joint work of MUFACE, the General Council of Official Colleges of Pharmacists (CGCOF) and the College of Pharmacists of Melilla, with the important support of the Official College of Physicians of the autonomous city and the concerted entities.
Improvement for mutualists in Melilla
The mutualistic group attached to the Provincial Service of MUFACE in Melilla are 4,810 people, of which 4,073 receive health care through insurance entities (concerted option).
All of them can already obtain their prescriptions and purchase the corresponding medicines using only their entity health card. The electronic prescription service includes visas, so they should no longer be carried out at the MUFACE offices, except for some exceptions.
How to use the concerted electronic recipe
Any mutualist of a concerted choice can go to the doctors of the medical category that corresponds to them to activate the digital prescription. From the prescription, you have 10 days to pick up the product at your pharmacy office, presenting your entity card. If they do not do so within the time limit, the prescription will be inactive and the medicine will no longer be available.
After the first collection, if it is a chronic treatment, they can continue to collect the drug in the pharmacy on a monthly basis for the period of time marked by the doctor, up to a maximum duration of one year. After this time it will be necessary to renew the prescription.
All these new developments have already been reported to the Melilla Concerted Choice Mutual Collective via e-mail.
Interoperable concerted e-recipe in eight CCAAs and Ceuta
Melilla joins the MUFACE Electronic Prescription System (SIREM) after Asturias, Canarias, Cantabria, Extremadura, La Rioja, Murcia, Navarra, Illes Balears and the autonomous city of Ceuta.
In all of them the e-prescription is interoperable, so mutualists of concerted choice from Melilla who travel temporarily to one of these communities will be able to obtain prescriptions and withdraw the prescribed medicines or products.
E-recipe of public option throughout the territory
On the other hand, the MUFACE group that is included in the public option already uses the e-recipe in all the autonomous communities. In this case the process began in 2014 with Extremadura and concluded in 2022 with the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla (INGESA).
In total, more than 40% of the MUFACE collective throughout the territory, between public and concerted option, already has an electronic recipe.
Traceability, security and agility
The electronic prescription guarantees the rationality of the use of medicines, their traceability and their safety.
Likewise, the medical community, whose collaboration is essential through the respective Colleges, is facilitated to monitor the patient's pharmacotherapeutic history and their loyalty to the treatments planned, while decreasing the number of visits to the consultation. For its part, for the patient, it improves access to their treatments and prevents travel both to the office and to the offices of MUFACE to obtain paper thalonists or visas.
For MUFACE, as a public body obliged to monitor the rational use of medicines, the electronic prescription is a guarantee of traceability and safety, at the same time as an inalienable objective.