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Saturday, February 1, 2014
CPPA Developing Specialty Pharmacy Accreditation Program
The Center for Pharmacy Practice Accreditation
®
(CPPA) has
announced the development of a new accreditation program for
specialty pharmacy practices. CPPA Executive Director Lynnae
Mahaney, MBA, RPh, FASHP, VHA-CM, indicates that “CPPA
will be able to develop the new specialty pharmacy standards
quickly and efficiently with the existing standards development
methodology, infrastructure, and network of specialty pharmacy
expertise.”
CPPA is a partnership between the American Pharmacists As
-
sociation, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists,
and NABP. CPPA develops and implements comprehensive
programs of pharmacy practice site accreditation, including the
promotion, development, and maintenance of principles, poli
-
cies, and standards. CPPA offers the general public and users of
pharmacy services a means of identifying those pharmacies that
satisfy the accreditation criteria and are focused on advancing
patient care, safety, and quality.
More information may be found in the press release, available
at
www.pharmacypracticeaccredit.org/news/2013/10/cppa-to-
develop-specialty-pharmacy-accreditation-program
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Survey Shows Compliance Trends Unchanged From 2012 : 77.2% for 797
013 USP Chapter <797> Compliance
The 2013 United States Pharmacopoeia (USP) Chapter
<797> Compliance Survey, the third annual report released since
2011, shows that the overall compliance rate of 77.2% remains
nearly unchanged from the 2012 rate. Budgetary restrictions
and physical plant limitations were among the top challenges to
compliance by survey respondents. The report also details the
survey’s findings on what types of facilities are participating in
compounding, and compliance in specific domain areas such as
environmental sampling and gloved fingertip sampling. Of the
survey’s 1,045 participants, 97% of the survey’s respondents
said that USP Chapter <797> “has had a positive influence on
patient safety.” The report notes National Association of Boards
of Pharmacy
®
(NABP
®
) efforts to assist state boards of pharmacy
in evaluating pharmacy compliance with USP Chapter <797>
requirements for sterile compounding in their states. The report
also noted that those who participated in the 2011 survey had a
higher compliance score than those who did not. The survey’s
authors encouraged pharmacy owners with multiple areas of
noncompliance to target one or two areas to improve. They
also encouraged organizations that participated in the survey to
make use of the free Action Plan – generated upon completion
of the survey – and other free resources to “reshape” their sterile
compounding practices. The full report on the survey’s results
is available in the October 2013 issue of
Pharmacy Purchasing
& Products Magazine
and on the magazine’s Web site at
www.pppmag.com/article/1403
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