Pharmaceutical dossier

Verified 07 October 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

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Published on 30 March 2020

The law on the acceleration and simplification of public action provides for the automatic opening of the pharmaceutical file.

The information contained on this page remains current and will be amended as soon as the text enters into force.

What is the pharmaceutical file? It is a computer file, created and consulted by your pharmacist, with your consent. It lists the medicines you have been given in the last 4 months, as well as the treatments and doses you are taking. The drugs on the record may have been prescribed by a doctor or purchased freely. This allows the pharmacist to monitor possible risks of contraindications and to advise you.

The pharmaceutical file shall make it possible to:

  • Secure drug delivery (physician, pharmacist, hospital) by limiting the risk of drug interactions and redundant treatments.
  • Ensuring coordination between healthcare professionals
  • Promote improved immunization coverage.

Please note

The pharmaceutical file should not be confused with My health space (shared medical record), which is in particular a computerized and secure health booklet.

The creation of a pharmaceutical file takes place in a pharmacy.

This creation can only be done with your express agreement or your legal representative.

FYI  

When you reach the age of majority, your pharmaceutical file remains if the pharmacist has obtained your consent.

You just have to go to any pharmacy in town and ask the pharmacist and introduce him your Vitale card. If you have minor children, you can have a drug file opened for each of them.

Your pharmacist will provide you with explanations and information leaflets related to:

  • Creating this folder
  • Its use
  • Its fence
  • Your rights to oppose consultation on an ad hoc basis and to feed this file.

Its creation shall give rise to the submission of a certificate.

The approach is free

Please note

You can go to the National Council of the College of Pharmacists to tell them that you refuse to benefit from a pharmaceutical file.

This makes it impossible to create a pharmaceutical file for 36 months. Pharmacists are informed.

If you wish to reconsider this refusal, you must inform the National Council of the College of Pharmacists. A pharmaceutical file can then be created.

The pharmaceutical file contains information about you and the medicines prescribed for you.

Patient identity

The pharmaceutical file contains information about your identity:

  • Last name or last name
  • Common First Name
  • Date of birth
  • Sex
  • Rank of birth (if multiple)

Medicines

It also contains information on medicines you take with or without a doctor’s prescription:

  • Their name and quantity
  • The date on which they were issued.

It also contains information on the implantable medical devices (prosthesis, implant, wick...) that you are carrying.

The pharmacist will consult your file to advise you when taking your medication and to warn you about possible contraindications.

The doctor, pharmacist, or biologist who cares for you in a health care facility can also view your drug record unless you object.

FYI  

Any consultation or modification of the file requires the Vitale card and your agreement.

The refusal to consult all or part of the file is mentioned.

You or your legal representative may object to:

  • Your file is viewed
  • Some drug-related information is recorded.

You can request a copy of the drug dispensations information from less than 4 months ago (as well as vaccines kept for 21 years) contained in your RFP. You may be charged for this copy.

This may be useful for you, to inform a new doctor about your current treatments.

FYI  

You can exercise your right of rectification with the pharmacist. If you obtain a modification of the registration, you are entitled to a refund of any copying fees.

The pharmaceutical file shall list, for each beneficiary of the health insurance who so wishes, all medicinal products delivered during the last 4 months.

Vaccine-related data are retained for 21 years and biological drug-related data for 3 years.

You can ask for its closure at any time by any pharmacist. The closing operation shall give rise to the submission of a certificate.

When a file is closed, all information is destroyed.

Please note

The file is automatically closed if it is not modified for a period of 3 years.

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