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With the beginning of the new year, the work on many legal changes regarding pharmacy in Poland has begun The first of them is the adoption of the act on clinical trials The new regulations will enable the full application of European Union law in this respect They are also intended, by the Ministry of Health, to increase the attractiveness of conducting clinical trials in Poland The most important issues covered by this act include: defining the mode of appointment, composition, and tasks of the Chief Bioethics Committee, no possibility of collecting fees from the trial participant by the entity conducting the trial, civil liability of the researcher and sponsor of clinical trials, creation of the Clinical Trials Compensation Fund, which is to ensure the protection of trial participants in terms of the insurance.

The act also introduced the possibility of issuing a pharmaceutical prescription for the flu vaccine. Thanks to this change, patients will have easier access to this vaccine, due to the lack of the need for visits to the doctor, which are often associated with queues and exposure to contact with pathogens through visits to medical facilities. Such a solution may have a positive impact on the number of vaccinations against the flu, and thus a decrease in the number of cases among the population.