Pharmacies in Greece

PHARMACIES IN GREECE Author: Georgios Zacharakis Tutor: RNDr. Jana Kotlářová, Ph.D. Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Faculty of Pharmacy in Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Aim of diploma thesis: The aim is to get current facts and knowledge about the situation of pharmacies in Greece, including their basic problems, and to compare it with the Czech Republic. Methods: Data collection through appreciation of information and studying of literature, esp. Greek legislation. Results: It was given necessary information on the National Health System in Greece and about place and role of pharmacies in this. The main part of thesis deals wits pharmacies in Greece (legislation, statistics, pharmacists, activities in pharmacy). There are many private community pharmacies and low amount of hospital pharmacies which are only for inpatients. Both Greece and Czech Republic made considerable efforts in latest years to harmonize their legislation to the European standards. However, a significant difference between Greece and Czech Republic is profit margins of wholesalers, which are higher in the Czech Republic in comparison to Greece, while the production of drugs in Greece is significant higher than Czech Republic, which based more in its neighboring countries for the supply..