Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) standards
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Good Pharmacy Practice (GPP) standards
Kenya’s health system is at a pivotal moment. The burden of disease is shifting, treatment options are increasingly complex, and expectations for safe, affordable, and effective care are rising. As the country advances towards Universal Health Coverage (UHC), pharmacists and pharmaceutical technologists are central to ensuring that every person can access quality health products and technologies and use them safely and effectively. The extent of medication-related problems makes this obligation urgent. Globally, medication errors are estimated to kill more than three million people every year. Between 2001 and 2019, deaths from adverse drug events tripled.
In Kenya, medicines consume a substantial share of health spending, while local data document preventable adverse reactions, antibiotic-related harm, and widespread irrational use of medicines. These statistics represent real patients and families whose outcomes depend directly on how pharmacy services are organised, regulated, and delivered. These Good Pharmacy Practice Standards are designed to address this reality. They provide a unified national standard for what good practice must look like wherever pharmacy services are offered. The standards define clear roles and scopes of practice, specify minimum service packages, infrastructure, and staffing norms appropriate to each level of care and set performance standards for core functions in pharmacy practice. In doing so, they address recurrent challenges: unsafe or irrational use of medicines, preventable medication errors and adverse events, weak integration of pharmacy within primary health care, risk of falsified and substandard products, gaps in accountability, and under-utilisation of the pharmacist’s clinical and public health role.
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