Legal Status of a Pharmacist as a Participant of the Pharmacy Market in Poland
Legal Status of a Pharmacist as a Participant of the Pharmacy Market in Poland

Author(s): Michał Jachowicz
Subject(s): Politics, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Pharmaceutical Law; pharmacist; pharmacy market; public health;
Summary/Abstract: The provision of the pharmaceutical service is the basic designation of the pharmacy activities as a public health care facility and is a correlate of the subjective right to health care guaranteed under the Polish Constitution. The provision of the pharmaceutical service remains within the scope of the profession of a pharmacist as a profession of public trust, which is also a regulated profession. Taking into account the need to ensure the highest level of implementation of the right to health care, the legal status of a pharmacist as a participant in the pharmacy market should be subject to special legal protection. The assessment of the existing legal status in this respect remains justified by both the subjective distinction between categories of entrepreneurs who hold a permit to operate a generally accessible pharmacy, as well as the legislative process on principles of fulfilling the pharmacist's professional obligations included in the draft Act on the profession of pharmacist. The purpose of this article is to assess the indicated legal conditions undertaken both on the basis of the existing legal status and proposed statutory solutions.

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