{"id":5807,"date":"2017-05-17T08:07:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmr-restrukturyzacje.local\/pmr\/apteka-dla-aptekarza-czyli-aptek-bedzie-coraz-mniej\/"},"modified":"2025-01-31T18:20:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T18:20:36","slug":"pharmacy-for-the-pharmacist-i-e-there-will-be-fewer-and-fewer-pharmacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/pharmacy-for-the-pharmacist-i-e-there-will-be-fewer-and-fewer-pharmacies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacy for the pharmacist, or pharmacies will become fewer and fewer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, President Andrzej Duda signed an amendment to the Pharmaceutical Law, already known as 'Pharmacy for the pharmacist'. In light of the newly-enacted changes, the licence to operate a pharmacy for the general public will be available to pharmacists with a licence to practise their profession who run a sole proprietorship, as well as to general or partnership companies whose object of activity is exclusively the operation of pharmacies and in which the partners (partners) are exclusively pharmacists with a licence to practise their profession. This excludes taking over pharmacies from parents if the heir is not a Master of Pharmacy. A pharmacist will only be allowed to own four pharmacies.<\/p>\n

Under the new rules, pharmacies will have to meet goegraphic and demographic criteria. In the case of the establishment of new pharmacies, this will be 3,000 inhabitants per municipality per pharmacy and the distance between neighbouring facilities will be at least 500 metres. This criterion will not apply if a pharmacist opens a new pharmacy one kilometre away from an existing one. According to the employers' organisation, the changes to the law are a haphazard patching up of loopholes, rather than a coherent idea for defining the role of pharmacies, and the medical professionals working there, in the health care system in Poland.<\/p>\n

They have nothing to do with increasing the level of health security of Poles, but seem to be aimed solely at gradually eliminating competition for the pharmacy corporation. The Act makes it virtually impossible to open new pharmacies.<\/p>\n

\n- The changes introduced by the amendment to the pharmaceutical law will hit pharmacies that are not run by pharmacists, as they will result in their gradual closure. Pharmacy companies with more than four outlets will also lose out, as they will not be able to expand. Most of them have made large financial commitments to set up their networks. This could result in their insolvency and bankruptcy, believes Ma\u0142gorzata Anisimowicz, president of the law firm PMR Restrukturyzacje SA.\n<\/div>\n

Employer representatives emphasise that the amendment of the Pharmaceutical Law Act may be incompatible with the Polish Constitution. In May this year, Professor Bogus\u0142aw Banaszak, a constitutionalist and, since January 2017, a judge of the Constitutional Tribunal, issued an opinion on the new legislation.<\/p>\n

\nThe material appeared in the newspaper G\u0142os Wielkopolski:
\n<\/b>
\n17 May 2017:
\n\" Pharmacy for the pharmacist, or pharmacies will become fewer and fewer<\/a>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prezydent Andrzej Duda podpisa\u0142 wczoraj nowelizacj\u0119 ustawy Prawo farmaceutyczne, znan\u0105 ju\u017c pod nazw\u0105 „Apteka dla aptekarza”. W\u00a0\u015bwietle nowouchwalonych zmian, zezwolenie na prowadzenie apteki og\u00f3lnodost\u0119pnej b\u0119d\u0105 mogli uzyska\u0107 farmaceuci posiadaj\u0105cy prawo wykonywania zawodu, prowadz\u0105cy jednoosobow\u0105 dzia\u0142alno\u015b\u0107 gospodarcz\u0105, oraz sp\u00f3\u0142ki jawne lub partnerskie, kt\u00f3rych przedmiotem dzia\u0142alno\u015bci jest wy\u0142\u0105cznie prowadzenie aptek, i w kt\u00f3rych wsp\u00f3lnikami (partnerami) s\u0105 wy\u0142\u0105cznie farmaceuci posiadaj\u0105cy prawo wykonywania zawodu. Wyklucza to przejmowanie aptek po rodzicach, je\u015bli spadkobierca nie b\u0119dzie magistrem farmacji. Farmaceuta b\u0119dzie m\u00f3g\u0142 mie\u0107 tylko cztery apteki. Zgodnie z nowymi zasadami, apteki b\u0119d\u0105 musia\u0142 spe\u0142nia\u0107 kryteria goegraficzno-demograficzne. W\u00a0przypadku powstawania nowych aptek b\u0119dzie to 3 tys. mieszka\u0144c\u00f3w w danej gminie przypadaj\u0105cych na jedn\u0105 aptek\u0119, a odleg\u0142o\u015b\u0107 mi\u0119dzy s\u0105siaduj\u0105cymi plac\u00f3wkami wyniesie co najmniej 500 metr\u00f3w. To kryterium nie b\u0119dzie obowi\u0105zywa\u0142o, je\u015bli farmaceuta otworzy now\u0105 aptek\u0119 w odleg\u0142o\u015bci kilometra od obecnie istniej\u0105cej. Wed\u0142ug organizacji pracodawc\u00f3w zmiany w prawie s\u0105 chaotycznym \u0142ataniem luk, nie za\u015b sp\u00f3jnym pomys\u0142em na zdefiniowanie roli apteki, a tak\u017ce pracuj\u0105cych tam przedstawicieli zawod\u00f3w medycznych w systemie opieki zdrowotnej w Polsce. Nie maj\u0105 one nic wsp\u00f3lnego z podniesieniem poziomu bezpiecze\u0144stwa zdrowotnego Polak\u00f3w, lecz ich celem wydaje si\u0119 by\u0107 wy\u0142\u0105cznie stopniowe wyeliminowanie konkurencji dla korporacji aptekarskiej. Ustawa praktycznie uniemo\u017cliwia otwieranie nowych aptek. – Zmiany, kt\u00f3re wprowadza nowelizacja prawa farmaceutycznego, uderz\u0105 w apteki, kt\u00f3re nie s\u0105 prowadzone przez farmaceut\u00f3w, bo spowoduj\u0105 ich stopniow\u0105 likwidacj\u0119. Strac\u0105 na tym r\u00f3wnie\u017c firmy aptekarskie, kt\u00f3re maj\u0105 wi\u0119cej ni\u017c cztery plac\u00f3wki, bo nie b\u0119d\u0105 si\u0119 mog\u0142y rozwija\u0107. Wi\u0119kszo\u015b\u0107 z nich podj\u0119\u0142a du\u017ce zobowi\u0105zania finansowe na stworzenie swoich sieci. To mo\u017ce spowodowa\u0107 ich niewyp\u0142acalno\u015b\u0107 i bankructwo – uwa\u017ca Ma\u0142gorzata Anisimowicz, prezes kancelarii PMR Restrukturyzacje SA. Przedstawiciele pracodawc\u00f3w podkre\u015blaj\u0105, \u017ce nowelizacja ustawy o prawie farmaceutycznym mo\u017ce by\u0107 niezgodna z Konstytucj\u0105 RP. W maju tego roku opini\u0119 na temat nowych przepis\u00f3w wyda\u0142 prof. Bogus\u0142aw Banaszak, konstytucjonalista, a od stycznia 2017 roku s\u0119dzia Trybuna\u0142u Konstytucyjnego. Materia\u0142 ukaza\u0142 si\u0119 w gazecie G\u0142os Wielkopolski: dnia 17 maja 2017: \u00bb Apteka dla aptekarza, czyli aptek b\u0119dzie coraz mniej<\/p>","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[30],"class_list":["post-5807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"authors":[{"term_id":30,"user_id":12,"is_guest":0,"slug":"teampmr-restructuring-pl","display_name":"Zesp\u00f3\u0142 PMR","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/logo2-e1729926426335.png","url2x":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/logo2-e1729926426335.png"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5807"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pmrsa.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=5807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}