3.03 The doctor's prescription should be respected
It is the doctor who bears the responsibility for the patient’s treatment, and it is therefore the doctor who acts on behalf of the patient. In view of this, it is important that the doctor has the right to choose the optimal treatment in consultation with the patient and in consideration of the patient’s autonomy. Where medicines are concerned, this implies the right to be able freely to prescribe the product that is most suited to the patient.
Precisely this choice of a specific treatment strategy in the interest of the patient will ensure the best possible treatment outcome.
Public expenditure considerations should not be taken separately from the overall treatment implications. Initiatives aimed at influencing the doctors’ prescription habits should always be broadly assessed, taking patient-specific aspects into account. The doctors’ decisions should always be viewed in light of each patient’s specific situation.
Lif believes:
- that the regulation of the doctors’ prescription habits through the use of recommendation lists (regionally as well as nationally) will diminish the doctors’ authority to prescribe and responsibility for the treatment,
- that information to the doctors should be formulated as general treatment guidelines making an individual adaptation to each patient possible.
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