The growth rate of pharmaceutical terminal sales slowed, and the sales growth of online pharmacies grew rapidly

The 2018 Blue Book on the Development of China's Pharmaceutical Market, directed by the Southern Institute of Pharmaceutical Economics, was recently released, according to the Economic Voice. Data show that in recent years, China's pharmaceutical terminal sales continued to grow, but the year-on-year growth rate continued to slow. At the same time, online pharmacy sales growth rate reached the largest.growth in drug terminal sales slowed
According to the Blue Book, sales in the drug terminal market reached 859 billion yuan in the first half of this year, up 6.9% year-on-year. End-sales growth slowed from 7.6% year-on-year in 2017. Fu Qiang, a researcher at the Institute of Hospital Management, said that the reasons for the slowdown were the following: First, the deepening of medical reform, the "zero-plus" change in drug addition, the reform in the process of promoting, wide and in-depth, some profit-seeking drugs and drug purchase may be reduced, objectively, this is also the effect of the reform hope to achieve;
Also believes that in recent years, related publicity about drug use is also increasing, people's habits in self-medication is slowly changing, the current situation of drug abuse has improved. Under the premise of ensuring basic medical care, the slowdown in drug sales is a more anticipated reform effect.Public primary health care terminal market share is expected to continue to rise
The Blue Book shows that in China's drug market terminals, public primary health care terminal drug sales compared to public hospital terminals and retail pharmacy terminals, the market share has increased from 7.4% in 2012 to 9.4% in 2017. With the deepening of the reform of public hospitals and the promotion of the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system, the market share of public primary health care terminals is expected to continue to rise.Online pharmacies have made rapid progress, but a large area is still some time
in retail pharmacy terminals, all online pharmacies licensed for Internet drug trading services in the first half of this year, drug sales reached 5 billion yuan, up 42.5% year-on-year. The growth rate far exceeds that of other terminals. Fu Qiang said that online pharmacies are still in the development stage, there may be some growth in the future.
Zhang Yongjian, director of the Center for Food and Drug Industry Development and Regulatory Research of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that although online pharmacy sales have increased and China's general direction also supports compliance with online drug sales, but a large area is still some time to go. "Regulations state that pharmacies need pharmacists, but in reality many pharmacies don't have pharmacists, or several pharmacies share a pharmacist's license. Pharmacists are also a process of clearance, and pharmacists do not necessarily sell drugs to users. If you can't get through it, you can't get to the ground, it's a lot of trouble. (CCTV)