Number of pharmacies declines At the beginning of 2015, Belgium included 4,950 pharmacies, or 1 per 2,150 inhabitants. This makes Belgium one of Europe’s closest networks. In order to ensure adequate, effective and regular supply of medicines throughout the country “, since the 1974 Distribution Act, only new pharmacies can be opened based on demographic […]
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More franchises and chain pharmacies in the Netherlands More and more pharmacists join as a franchisee to a chain or formula. In 2011, 61% of the pharmacies affiliated with a chain or formula. This has now risen to 77%. Individual pharmacists Close hardly independent contracts with insurers and thereby align themselves more through purchasing collectives […]
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The number of pharmacies in Belgium is declining steadily according to figures from the Association pharmaceutique belge (APB), the national federation of independent pharmacies. Numbers peaked in 1999, with 5,277 pharmacies across the country, but have been declining ever since. A moratorium on opening new pharmacies was introduced that year and is set to run […]