Staff Report with Final Results: Texas State Board of Pharmacy Page: 26
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Sunset Advisory Commission
The board
revoked 95
licenses and
registrations for
serious violations
of the rules in
fiscal year 2015.The board
takes its duty
to protect the
public seriously,
performing
thousands of
inspections
and complaint
investigations
and disciplining
hundreds of
practitioners
each year.to public health efforts to ensure the state is doing everything possible to limit
diversion of drugs for illegitimate purposes.
The board also develops and enforces rules and regulations to ensure that
licensees engage in safe practices for increasingly specialized and technical
pharmacy operations. For example, sterile compounding pharmacies, which
prepare customized injectable medications that pose a higher risk of infection
than other drugs, have been subject to increased legislative interest following
the deaths of 64 people nationally who took drugs compounded by the New
England Compounding Center in Massachusetts in 2012.4 In 2013, the
Legislature added a requirement that the board inspect sterile compounding
pharmacies before initial licensure and every two years on renewal to ensure
that these pharmacies continue to meet sterility requirements. In fiscal year
2015, the board inspected 273 sterile compounding pharmacies, issuing 171
warning notices for violations of board rules.
Finally, the public needs an agency that can resolve complaints about pharmacy
service providers and, when warranted, discipline those who violate the laws to
bring them into compliance or expel them from the profession when necessary.
The board has taken this role seriously, revoking 95 licenses and registrations
for serious violations of the rules in fiscal year 2015. The board also pays special
attention to pharmacists and pharmacy technicians suffering from chemical
dependency issues, performing comprehensive monitoring of 167 licensees
and registrants with these issues in fiscal year 2015.
No substantial benefits would result from transferring the
board's functions to another agency at this time.
" Independent agency structure. The state has regulated the practice of
pharmacy through an independent regulatory agency since its creation in
1907. This independent structure reflects the common approach for some
significant health licensing activities in Texas, especially larger agencies
such as the Medical and Nursing boards. These agencies oversee complex
medical activities that pose a significant risk to public health and safety and
generate significant regulatory activity such as complaint investigations,
inspections, and action to correct or discipline bad actors.
The board takes its duty to protect the public seriously, performing thousands
of inspections and complaint investigations and disciplining hundreds
of practitioners each year. In addition, having the board operate as an
independent agency with the singular focus of regulating the practice of
pharmacy allows the Legislature to readily identify where responsibility
lies when problems arise.
This independent structure offers benefits in terms of focusing regulatory
attention on protecting patient health. This structure provides for a
dedicated staff focused exclusively on regulating the practice of pharmacy
that is easily identifiable and accessible to practitioners and the public alike.2 6 Texas State Board of Pharmacy Staff Report with Final Results
Issue 3June 2017
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Ogle, Steven; Schiff, Tamara; Hartley, Cee & Teleki, Katharine. Staff Report with Final Results: Texas State Board of Pharmacy, report, June 2017; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1033475/m1/50/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.