In Germany, there was the end of 2019 yet 19.075 pharmacies. The number fell last year to 348. The decline is the highest recorded in a calendar year. With 23 pharmacies per 100,000 inhabitants, Germany is clearly below the European average of 31 pharmacies.
The number of the owner of a Pharmacy is also strongly decreased: their number has dropped to 409 on 14.473 (minus 2.7 percent). "Still can leave the patient in Germany, on an area-wide supply of medicines, but this will all be over soon, if nothing happens. For twelve years, the number of farms. We will be able to stabilize the Situation only if, the pharmacies will get more planning security and a reasonable regulatory corridor," ABDA-President Friedemann Schmidt says.
Schmidt calls for two legislative measures: a uniform levy prices for prescription medicines in international shipping trade in the GKV health care. On the other hand, the introduction of the E had-recipe by a Blemish was forbidden to be accompanied, patients to keep the free pharmacy of choice without undue influence from commercial service providers.
Both measures, says Schmidt, Before were already in the design for the on-the-spot-pharmacies-strengthening act, by the Federal Cabinet in July 2019 has decided. "But this law uses and then only when it is tabled in the Bundestag and decided. It is now high time."
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