חוק לתיקון פקודת הרוקחים (מס' 38), התשפ"ה–2025Law to Amend the Pharmacists Ordinance (No. 38), 2025 · automatic translation · suggest a correction

Official summary of the law (Knesset)

This Law regulates a new profession of pharmacy technician. Work as a pharmacy technician will be permitted for a person registered in the pharmacy technician registry to be maintained by the Ministry of Health, who meets the qualification conditions specified in the Law, including: 12 years of education, proficiency in Hebrew and English, and completion of theoretical and practical training. The Law specifies the cases in which a pharmacy technician will be removed from the registry. The pharmacy technician will be permitted to perform tasks such as dispensing and pouring of a preparation, dispensing of a prescription preparation or a non-prescription preparation only after a patient has received pharmaceutical counseling from a pharmacist, and dispensing of a fixed prescription preparation, but only on condition that this is a repeat dispensing to the patient within a year from when the preparation was first dispensed to the patient by a pharmacist. The Minister of Health was authorized, with the approval of the Health Committee, to determine additional tasks to be performed by pharmacy technicians. Under the Law, a pharmacy owner may not employ more than 3 pharmacy technicians for each pharmacist employed in the same shift, but in pharmacies of certain hospitals where compounding is performed in a laboratory, or in private pharmacies whose main business is pharmaceutical preparations, the ratio will be up to five technicians per pharmacist. The Law establishes provisions regarding the management of the pharmacy technician registry and removal from the registry, and also provides that if the Director General of the Ministry of Health finds that there is a real risk of harm to public health due to the activity of a pharmacy technician, he may, by a reasoned decision, prohibit the employment of a technician to perform permitted actions at a particular pharmacy, or set conditions for employment, for a specified period. In addition, the Law allows the Director General of the Ministry of Health to approve a pharmacist to serve as the responsible pharmacist for two pharmacies, under the conditions specified in the Law and subject to a finding that this would not harm the proper management of the pharmacies. The Law provides that the obligations to maintain preparations under proper conditions will also apply to a business selling non-prescription preparations through automatic vending machines. The Law authorizes a pharmacist to correct an error in a prescription without contacting the prescriber, but only if the correction is required to complete details in the prescription listed in the Law, and only those.

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