Professional pharmacy model should not be generic.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 5 Professional pharmacy model should not be ‘generic’ The U.S. retail market of medicines so that people can always interpret itself to blame Vladimir, such as super-large, both the size and drug retail concentration, or 1 hour photo printing services, and automotive dispensary window service, or the large-scale clinics, pharmacies expansion, and then moving the 25 billion U.S. dollars, or retail pharmacy merger between the large, every movement, every innovation is reflected across the Atlantic a century the development of drug retail profound connotation. Today, the retail market, once again giving us a vivid lesson in how the breakdown of the retail pharmacy business courses. After the U.S. pharmacy market segmentation patterns, ranging from every point of view to provide professional services for the majority of patients, including the shop shops (pharmacies located in supermarkets), clinics and shops (pharmacies equipped with clinics), community shops (pharmacies located in the community ), drug store (pharmacy inside the cosmetics counters), specialty store (pharmacy professional management of specific drugs) and other types. In recent years, community pharmacies gradually fell in love with a ‘professional pharmacy’ this model, a number of community pharmacies, chain pharmacies gradually changed the role of co-operation with medical insurance companies, the business category of community pharmacies expansion of community-based professionals into the medical insurance pharmacies fixed-point range, to add some ‘professional pharmacy’ in order to run drugs, such as tumor class, type hepatitis, AIDS category, such as rheumatoid arthritis treatment category. The United States is a country to implement the separation of the policy, which is very different in China, almost all of the drugs are sold in retail pharmacies, ranking the top two drugstore chains Walgreens and CVS is almost the size of total sales could reach 1000 100 million U