Pharmacists want to remain independent

13.10.2009 17:49

Over 840 pharmacists cast their vote in the survey conducted by the Institute for Retail Research

Continuing to practice the independent medical profession of pharmacist independently in your own pharmacy - this is one of the central results of a member survey that the Institute for Commercial Research, Cologne, carried out on behalf of the North Rhine Pharmacists' Association in November 2008.

Over 840 pharmacy managers took part. Almost 100 percent (96.4 percent) stated that they wanted to continue practicing the freelance medical profession of pharmacist in their own pharmacy in the future. If the ban on third-party ownership were overturned, over 80 percent could not even imagine working as an employed pharmacist in a pharmacy chain.