Question 7547 — pharmacy and medications

Summary

The Government is keen to preserve the pharmacy network and guarantee the population equal access to medicines throughout the country. Ordinance No. 2018-3 of January 3, 2018 “relating to the adaptation of the conditions for the creation, transfer, regrouping and sale of pharmacy pharmacies” resulting from the law of January 26, 2016 on the modernization of our health system presents measures that meet the needs of the population and the concerns of the pharmaceutical profession. This order does not aim to eliminate pharmacies, its objective is to promote a more harmonious distribution of community pharmacies by relaxing the rules applicable to their transfers and groupings. Provisions make it possible to facilitate the grouping of pharmacies from municipalities with pharmacy overdensity to municipalities with a number of inhabitants by pharmacy reveals a need. To this end, two or more pharmacies may be authorized to group together anywhere in the national territory, the previous regulations only allowing them to establish themselves in one of their municipalities of origin. Taking into account, no longer just the resident population, but also population flows and their new lifestyles, will broaden the possibilities for a pharmacy to get closer to a health center or a local shopping center to best meet the needs of the population. The preservation of the pharmacy monopoly provided for by the public health code is part of the same desire to guarantee the population access to medicines accompanied by secure dispensing.

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