Online pharmacy

There were no illegal drugs on the premises, but a lot of prescription drugs

Online sales by Greek pharmacies grew by 13% in 2022 compared with the previous year, totaling 271 million euros, Convert Group said in an annual industry report.

It showed that online pharmacies offered an average 41% discount in 2022, a rate unchanged from 2021.

Hundreds of residents of small settlements in Bulgaria continue to be without access to medicines.

According to data from the Executive Medicines Agency, by 2021 the number of pharmacies in our country was 3,300, with a third of them concentrated in Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna.

New supplies of antibiotics and antivirals, which are missing from pharmacies in Bulgaria, are expected this week. In the coming days, the measure announced by the Minister of Health last week, according to which doctors and pharmacists will have access to information about missing and available drugs in wholesale warehouses, should also work.

Ljubljana – The Court of Audit has examined drug procurement practices in three public pharmacy chains to find that medicine procurement in the country is still in disarray and public pharmacies keep flouting public procurement rules.

The court issued an adverse opinion to Pomurske Lekarne, Lekarna Velenje and Lekarna Sevnica after examining their drug purchasing practices in 2020.

The online pharmacy sector in Greece is galloping with a growth rate of + 27% in value in the third quarter of 2021, compared to the corresponding quarter of 2020.

Ljubljana – The National Assembly voted 47 in favour and 37 against on Wednesday to endorse a bill amending the pharmacy practice act which lifts the ban on vertical integration of pharmacies and drug wholesalers in cases when the wholesaler is incorporated by a public pharmacy or municipality.

About 42% of adult Bulgarians, or about 50% of internet users, would like to purchase online medications prescribed by a doctor, shows nationally representative survey of the Market Links agency, conducted among 1,000 people. It's results will be announced in detail today at an online discussion dedicated to e-Healthcare and organized by Capital newspaper.

Ljubljana – The coalition Modern Centre Party (SMC) has tabled amendments to the pharmacy practice act that would partly deregulate the retail pharmacy market, including by rolling back a ban on vertical integration of pharmacies and drug wholesalers. The proposal has been criticised by the Chamber of Pharmacies, which argues the existing rules are good.

There have been big delays lately in the shipping of high-cost medicines, used to treat serious conditions, to patients.