Pharmacia (Jul 2019)

Evaluation of the current status of the value-added pharmacy services and pharmacists’ attitude in Bulgaria

  • Stefan Balkanski,
  • Joana Simeonova,
  • Ivan Gitev,
  • Ilko Getov

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/pharmacia.66.e36530
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 66, no. 2
pp. 79 – 83

Abstract

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Value-added pharmacy services (VAPS) are additional services to the traditional pharmacy activities, which do not include dispensing of medicinal products and professional consultation. Over 51% of the community pharmacies in Bulgaria offer VAPS but mainly measuring of blood pressure (67.4%) and blood glucose (12.9%). About 60% of community pharmacists in the country are willing to perform other VAPS. About 70% of them believe that patients would rate VAPS as useful. Younger pharmacists with professional experience less than 5 years (90.9%) tend to believe that VAPS would be positively rated by their patients. The study shows that VAPS different from consultation and dispensing of medicinal products have a potential for development in the community pharmacies in Bulgaria.