The Pharmaceutical Distributors Association of Hong Kong (PDA) was formed in March 2005. We have 13 committee members (at October 2016) and with more than 50 memberships in 2016. Members are wholesalers and Secondary Labelling manufacturing Licence holders with a full line of warehousing and supply chain operation in drugs and medical devices and GMP standard pharmaceutical Secondary Labelling operation. Our member companies provide a significant percentage on the smaller share of the remaining approximately 30% of the prescription medicines and over the counter drugs trade in Hong Kong. 

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The Association was formed to provide information on matters relating to the wholesaling, retailing, Secondary Labelling and devices markets to its members. We valued the Association to improve the relationship between our member companies and the Government, Hospital Authority central procurement office, Department of Health (Pharmaceutical Service), healthcare related societies and the community.

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On the 1 January 2016, Hong Kong became a member of PICS/GMP and with it the Secondary Labelling standard of our members will also need to raise to PICS/GMP standard in the near future. Department of Health has also required our members to fully comply with the Code of Practice implemented by the end of 2015. All these measures have changed the way we used to operate in the industry and drastically increased our members’ workload and resources that we need to invest before we can meet the Department of Health stringent new standards. The Association is at its pivotal position to channel our members’ needs and demand back to Department of Health in order to smooth out the impact incurred by all these new regulations. 

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In view of all these new challenges we need to come together as a collective force to share valuable experiences within our members and seek professional and expertise advice from other institutions like the HK Productivity Council, HK Institute of Biotechnology Ltd. etc on solving the operational procedures, warehouse temperature mapping, temperature/data logger and quality management system just to name a few issues that are all new to the whole industry. Through our Association we can liaise closely with other pharmaceutical disciplines like HK General Chamber of Pharmacy & The Association of HK Health Care Professionals etc. to build up a united healthcare front in order to coordinate necessary collective action should we need to at controversial political issues.

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With the rapidly changing political and economic environment of today, the pharmaceutical industry will also face many challenges and The Association will act as a platform to let our members to air their opinions, share their experience and market intelligence so as to strengthen ourselves for the benefit of the whole industry to thrive for many more years to come.

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