Country Focus - Germany
Pharmacoeconomics: an ongoing challenge in German hospital pharmacies
Year: 2011; Nr: 4; Pages: 48- 48;Considering the pharmacoeconomic challenges in German hospital pharmacies, costminimisation analysis is of pivotal importance. After losing their patents, many drugs enter into an intense price competition based on ‘the broader the market, the lower the price.
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ADKA: the German Society of Hospital Pharmacists
Year: 2011; Nr: 4; Pages: 46- 47;The present-day German Society of Hospital Pharmacists(ADKA) was first founded in the southern German city of Stuttgart by Dr. Rudolf Rapp in 1911 as the Society of Chief Pharmacists in Hospitals. After World War I, the group was reorganised in Düsseldorf, Germany, under the name Society of Hospital Pharmacists. This organisation included assistant pharmacists in addition to chief pharmacists and had grown to 126 members by 1933, when it dissolved and its members became part of national socialist pharmacist organisations.
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Hospital and retail pharmacies: an ongoing challenge
Year: 2011; Nr: 4; Pages: 45- 46;The hospital pharmacy system in Germany is somewhat different from other European countries. There are about 2,000 hospitals in Germany, but only about 410 hospital pharmacies supply medicines and provide general pharmaceutical services for more than 70% of the hospitals. About 230 retail pharmacies deliver drugs to the remaining 28% of the mainly smaller hospitals, see Figure 1. Unlike in many other European countries and regardless of the number of beds or level of care, Germany has no regulations requiring a hospital to run its own pharmacy.
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The hospital pharmacy: providing services on behalf of patients
Year: 2011; Nr: 4; Pages: 42- 44;Hospitals in Germany may be categorised into different types with respect to the level and type of care (primary, secondary and tertiary care hospitals and psychiatric hospitals) and may also be categorised according to ownership (public, religious affiliation, private).
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