Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to analyse trends in the development of pharmacy chains belonging to pharmaceutical wholesalers in Poland in the years 1989-2014. After the collapse of the Soviet bloc, the Polish pharmaceutical market, as in all of Central and Eastern Europe, followed in the footsteps of the global market and became highly commercial. It was a significant change as in the communist system the state had a monopoly on the whole of the medicines and dressing materials market. What is more, there was no such thing as private property. After 1989, pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesalers, which were nationalized in 1951, were gradually replaced by private pharmacies and pharmaceutical wholesalers. It was a hopeful perspective for pharmacists, but their share in the pharmaceutical market has been steadily decreasing. There are several factors that contributed to this situation: a shortage of capital, unfavourable rules for the reimbursement of medicines, liberal pharmaceutical legislation, pharmacists’ lack of preparation for managing their pharmacies and strong competition from pharmacy chains owned by enterprises registered as public companies. In 2014 the Polish pharmacy market was dominated by pharmacy chains.http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/1647-6336_14_7
Highlights
DEBATER A EUROPADEBATER A EUROPA Periódico do CIEDA e do CEIS20 , em parceria com GPE e a RCE. N.14 janeiro/junho 2016 – Semestral ISSN 1647-6336 Disponível em: http://www.europe-direct-aveiro.aeva.eu/debatereuropa/
In 1989 Poland freed itself from political and economic dependence on the Soviet Union and entered a period of transformation in all spheres of public life
The division of the pharmacy market between several large listed companies led to its greater commercialization, among other things through an increase in sales of over-the-counter medicines
Summary
DEBATER A EUROPA Periódico do CIEDA e do CEIS20 , em parceria com GPE e a RCE. N.14 janeiro/junho 2016 – Semestral ISSN 1647-6336 Disponível em: http://www.europe-direct-aveiro.aeva.eu/debatereuropa/. Resumo O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar as tendências no desenvolvimento de redes de farmácias pertencentes a grossistas de produtos farmacêuticos na Polônia entre 1989-2014. Após o colapso do bloco soviético, o mercado farmacêutico polaco, como em toda a Europa Central e de Leste, seguiu os passos do mercado global e tornou-se altamente comercial. Há vários fatores que contribuíram para esta situação: a falta de capital, regras desfavoráveis para o reembolso de medicamentos, legislação farmacêutica liberal, a falta de preparação para a gestão das suas farmácias e forte concorrência de cadeias de farmácias de propriedade de empresas registadas como empresas públicas. Em 2014 o mercado farmacêutico polaco estava dominado pelas redes farmacêuticas. Palavras-chave: redes farmacêuticas; mercado global; mercado farmacêutico polaco; farmácia no século XX; grossistas farmacêuticos
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