Foreign experience of state regulation of the development of pharmaceutical market at the present stage

Abstract

A review of the main trends in national regulation of placing and opening pharmacies in the European countries and the United States of America is given. These countries have their peculiarities and methods of pharmaceutical market regulation, the study of which is very useful and revealing. It is established that, in recent years in our country the profitability of pharmaceutical market declined sharply, which led to increased conflicts of interest for the pharmacy market. Modern pharmaceutical market is saturated with not only medicines, but also with a number of participants, primarily pharmacy organizations. Russian pharmacy sector of the pharmaceutical market is developing erratically, without an adequate public regulation.

In the late 90th of XX century the standards for regulating of pharmacies’ placement and opening were canceled in Russia. As a result, the market entry barriers were reduced which led both to a rapid increase in pharmacies number and, as a consequence, to an increased competition. The increasing of competition, on the one hand, of course, led to the increase of efficiency of activity of pharmacies, however, ethical conflicts intensified, the professional level of pharmacy workers has declined, commercial challenges of pharmacies rose to the fore, and instead of raising the quality and affordability of pharmaceutical care to the population the deterioration and reduction of profitability of pharmacies are observed.

Thus, in the pharmaceutical market there are new problems that require solutions. In the same vein was the development of the pharmaceutical market in Europe, which was recommended to balance pharmacy legal regulation with a competition law. Modern pharmaceutical practice dictates the urgent need for the improvement of drug provision of the population in the territories of constituent entities of the Russian Federation. In connection with the adopted Strategy for medications supply to the population up to 2025, in which an introduction of effective models and formation of a balanced policy of development of pharmacy services, issues of regulation of placing and opening pharmacies should be an integral part of this reform.

Keywords

state regulation / demographic and geographical requirement / pharmacies placement / territorial concentration of pharmacies / pharmacies opening / distance between pharmacies / number of inhabitants on one pharmacy / profitable pharmacy practice

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