[The revision of the organization of consultation for long-term treatment]

The growing drug dependency of developed societies has meant the uncontrolled use of drugs with the consequent medical risks and important economic repercussions. Primary health care in our country is characterized by high demand bureaucratization of clinics. Because of this, we consider it useful to rely on a prescription system for long term treatment, this being understood as a mechanism which allows the obtaining of prescriptions easily both for the patient and the doctor, control and monitoring of established chronic treatments, periodical therapy evaluations, which rely on the participation of other members of the primary health care team. In this report the model of the repeat prescription system in our health area is shown, from which the prescription can be obtained in a maximum time limit of 8 hours, the medication taken for chronic illness can be easily recognized and to make note of the date of the prescription.