[Transfer] Will 70,000 retail pharmacies disappear?

[Transfer] Will 70,000 retail pharmacies disappear?

Source: Sai Blue/Color

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Retail pharmacy competition intensifies

According to the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of the Pharmaceutical Distribution Industry during the" Fourteenth Five-Year Plan "period released by the Ministry of Commerce, by 2025, 5-10 specialized and diversified pharmaceutical retail chain enterprises, which will be cultivated by 5-10 yuan. The annual sales of the top 100 pharmaceutical retail companies account for more than 65%of the total pharmaceutical retail market; the retail chain rate of drugs is close to 70%.

Recently, at the 2022 International Health Industry (Chongqing) Expo and Shuangpinhui hosted by the China Medical Materials Association, Cai Gang, chairman of Xinjiang Baicaitang, said that the operation and development of China's retail pharmacy is facing unprecedented evolution. Under the market volume of more than 500,000 retail pharmacies, large brand chains are still in the field of horse racing and continuously expanding; small chains, single stores, and couple shops are also hot.

Under the saturated market capacity, the retail market of the Chinese pharmacy is unprecedentedly competitive, and it has entered the vortex of the inner roll.

At the end of March 2022, the State Drug Administration issued the third quarter of the "Medical Supervision and Management Statistics Report" pointed out that as of the end of September 2021, there were 606,500 "Drug Management License" holding companies. Among them, there were 335,300 retail chain stores and 251,200 single pharmacies, with a chain rate of 57.1%.

However, due to different system management and different market development, the characteristics of retail pharmacies are obvious.

The mergers and acquisitions of large chain pharmacies have continued, and the market trends in depth have obvious. The development of small and medium -sized pharmacies is even more difficult to develop.

From the perspective of policy, with the implementation of medical insurance policies, more and more large -scale chain pharmacies have entered the collection, and the retail price of the bidding variety is reduced.

At present, there are already pilots including Henan, Shanxi Yuncheng, and Zibo, Shandong. However, different provinces and cities have different requirements.

For example, the Henan Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau emphasized that the pharmaceutical retail chain stores with "inferiority" behavior shall not participate, including retail pharmacies punished by market supervision departments, including fake, inferior drugs or medical devices that do not meet national quality standards in the past two years. ; Shanxi Yuncheng Medical Insurance Bureau made specific requirements for the quality of medicines. Fixed -point retail pharmacies must register drugs for real -name registered medicines for purchasing drugs.

Pharmacy entering the collection has begun to spread to the whole country. Facing the introduction of encouraging policies in various places, retail pharmacies need to seize opportunities, actively take measures, expand the scope of prescription drug procurement, and maintain good supply relationships with the bidding pharmaceutical companies in a timely manner.

At the same time, under the influence of the new crown epidemic, offline pharmacies extend their services through the Internet to online, and the pattern of traditional pharmacy "online and offline integration operations" is being formed.

The habit of buying drugs is also affected in a subtle way. The "Development Report of the China Pharmaceutical Materials Association (2021) Medicine Blue Book" shows that from the current development trend, the scale of pharmaceutical e -commerce is still maintaining a strong and persistent growth, and it will not subspeges in a short period of time.

Based on the "2025 retail chain rate close to 70%", calculated at 60.65 pharmacies as the base, the number of single pharmacies will be reduced to about 180,000 in the next three years. Compared with now, it will reduce nearly 70,000.

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How to counterattack in the inside volume?

The State Drug Administration issued the "Regulations on Implementation of the Pharmaceutical Management Law of the People's Republic of China (Draft Amendment of the Draft Consultation)" clearly stated that it will further increase the requirements for the regulatory of drug retail chain operations:

The enterprise headquarters of the pharmaceutical retail chain operation activities shall set up a special quality management institution and full -time personnel, establish a unified quality management system for the stores, and realize the unified identification, unified management system, unified computer system, unified procurement and distribution, unified bill management, unified purchase and distribution, unified purchase and distribution, unified ticket management, and unified bill management, and unified bill management. The unified pharmaceutical service standards are standardized to ensure that the stores continue to meet the statutory requirements.

The unified trend of retail pharmacies strikes. In the future, how can pharmacies develop better?

The former president of the Zhejiang Medical Industry Association Guo Taihong said at the above conference that the development of retail pharmacy can start from the following aspects:

First, actively strive for medical insurance points; second, actively strive for prescription and external distribution; third, dual -channel policy; fourth, long -term prescription policy; fifth, DIP method, cancel the pharmacy "forbidden wrong"; sixth, "zero differences" Rate "and" unified payment standards "and so on.

It further stated that retail pharmacies can first bear the function of pharmacy, and then build a community health service center, which must be better than the independent. You can provide medical services, undertake the first outpatient clinic, primary outpatient clinic, and uncomplicated review. You can establish big data management, establish health management single -drying, combine the family doctor system, and implement medical security.

At present, designated medical insurance hospitals in various provinces are increasing, followed by the arrival of cross -provincial medical insurance designated pharmacies.

Recently, the Beijing Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau, Tianjin Medical Insurance Bureau, and Hebei Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau jointly issued the "Key Points for the Composite Development of Beijing -Tianjin -Hebei Medical Insurance Coordination 2022", which proposed the number of direct settlement of fixed -point pharmaceutical institutions for cross -provincial medical clinics.

As for the "zero difference" sales of pharmacies, the Jiangsu Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau took the lead in demonstration.

On July 21, the Jiangsu Provincial Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Notice on the Procurement of Purchase Purchase and Sunshine Procurement (Draft for Opinions) for the participation of fixed -point retail pharmacies in medical insurance, and gave a process guidance for how to participate in the procurement of the targeted pharmacy, and requested the implementation of the implementation "Zero Devrens" Sales.

As a major pharmaceutical province, the "zero -difference rate" sales will definitely have a demonstration effect on other provinces.In the future, there will be more provinces' retail pharmacies to change their ideas.Guo Taihong believes that the medical insurance department has developed from the medical insurance reform of hospitals and has developed to the medical insurance reform of retail pharmacies. In the future, more policies and measures will be introduced.Pharmacy needs to seize opportunities and actively respond.

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