Independent Communities
The 2011 have supposed for the pharmacy offices, a year of swings, entrance in force of new Decrees, slope of margins or publication of the new agreement of Offices of Pharmacy. However, it has been a year of goings and comings, but mainly, and as we see from Asefarma (www.asefarma.com) the 2011 it has been, and thus it must be considered, a year of reinforcing of ideas like the necessity to impel the dynamic management, 12 months that can serve to us to begin to glimpse the future of this sector with new horizons being tried to approach our offices from pharmacy Europe. A review to this 2011 Several subjects that worried to the sector have been finding answer and solution throughout the year. An example of it is that the threat of the liberalization has dissipated in 2011, mainly after the large file given by the European Commission to the process abierto in 2006 against the Spanish norm that questioned the criteria of regulation and planning of the Spanish pharmaceutical model. A process that also affected norms of countries like France, Portugal, Cyprus or Greece. At economic and financial level, the 2011 have brought to the lowered new offices of pharmacy in the margins and the own prices of medecines. With the entrance in force of Real Decrees 4/2010 and 8/2010 RD many pharmacies have observed how selling the same number of prescriptions, they invoiced less at the end of the month, explains Patricia Fernandez, Subresponsable of the Department of Accounting of Asefarma. This, together with the restriction of the credit on the part of some financial organizations, or the delay in the payments in some Independent Communities, as well as the fast correction of the market of the transmissions, as Jose Manuel Retamal explains, Person in charge of the Financial Department of Asefarma, has marked the sector throughout the 2011.
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