Hunan Province announced support for pharmacies to cooperate with convenience stores or supermarkets to sell medicines.

Pharmaceutical Network September 14th, recently, Hunan Provincial Department of Commerce and other 13 departments jointly issued "on the promotion of brand chain convenience stores to accelerate the development of the implementation of the Opinion" (hereinafter referred to as "Opinion").
"Opinion" pointed out that to improve the planning layout, optimize the development environment, promote the chain of convenience store brands as the focus, the use of 3-5 years time, accelerate the development of brand chain convenience stores in our province.
In accordance with the Opinions, the main tasks will be to strengthen the convenience store configuration policy guarantee, optimize the convenience store regional layout, clarify the convenience store configuration standards, simplify the relevant licensing, optimize the conditions for food business licensing, simplify the drug business approval procedures and other 13 aspects of planning.
Among them, in simplifying the approval procedures for drug operations, the Opinion clearly supports large drug retail chains to cooperate with branded convenience stores or supermarkets to set up counters in-store or 24-hour vending machines in large public places for the sale of Class B over-the-counter drugs.
simple understanding is that pharmacies can work with branded convenience stores or supermarkets to sell drugs.
other words, it is to expand the scope of retail pharmacies, convenient for the masses to buy drugs.
to allow pharmacies, in a variety of occasions to set up vending machines in fact, in many places this year have mentioned similar measures, on the one hand, in order to facilitate the masses to buy drugs, on the other hand, also good for the development of pharmacies.
September 4th, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province issued the "Zhangzhou City to support and encourage the innovative development of pharmaceutical retail enterprises and civilian services (trial)" pointed out that drug retail chains are encouraged to set up drug sales counters in airports, railway stations, shopping malls, supermarkets, convenience stores and other places to sell Class B over-the-counter drugs.
July, chongqing municipal departments issued the "Chongqing City Vending Machine Management Regulations (Trial)" said that in the administrative area of Chongqing City, according to the law to obtain a "business license" "drug business license" "second category of medical device business record certificate" drug retail enterprises, can rely on their own physical pharmacies in the registered address set up vending machines, but also outside the registered address such as airports, stations, docks, tourist attractions, commercial areas and other crowded places to set up vending machines.
March 20, Gansu Province, "on promoting the innovation and development of pharmaceutical retail enterprises and civilian services" clearly support drug retail enterprises to set up vending machines to sell Class B over-the-counter drugs.
Encourage drug retail chain enterprises to set up vending machines to sell Class B over-the-counter drugs in large public places, street communities, residential areas and other areas, and encourage drug retail enterprises to set up vending machines to sell Class B over-the-counter drugs at their registered addresses, so as to facilitate the purchase and use of the masses.
Class B OTC sales, greatly liberalized in addition, "Opinion" also mentioned that for convenience stores to start drug sales business, to further simplify the relevant approval process and application materials, shorten the approval time, improve processing efficiency, and further reduce the institutionalized costs of enterprises.
, of course, there are many similar documents.
- Pharmacy managers combed through local policies found that up to now, Gansu, Shandong, Sichuan, Jiangxi, Beijing, Zhejiang Jinhua and other places issued similar measures to liberalize the operation of Class B OTC.
According to the Measures for the Classification and Classification of Pharmaceutical Retail Enterprises in Shandong Province, only one class of stores with Class B over-the-counter drugs shall be operated, and the municipal market regulatory departments of each district may, in accordance with the actual situation of the jurisdiction, work with the administrative examination and approval departments to pilot the simplification of the examination and approval procedures and the appropriate relaxation of access conditions.
, the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Drug Administration has also made it clear that it will encourage support for brand chain convenience stores to apply for retail operations of Class B over-the-counter drugs.
in the administrative approval, actively support community brand convenience store chain operators to apply for retail operation of Class B over-the-counter drugs.
and in accordance with the regional application to start a drug retail enterprise standards, continue to optimize the certification process, simplify the application materials, shorten the approval time, improve processing efficiency.
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