Making Patient Safety a Priority - a solution for Europe

As new EU legislation will shortly bring, arguably, the most important change to the way the pharmaceutical industry operates in order to protect patients from falsified medicines, few, if any, will realise the impact of any legislation as much as the 160,000 high street pharmacies who dispense medicines across Europe.

It is, after all, the pharmacists themselves that are on the frontline, the last line of defence between the patient and the quality of the medicine. Armed with the correct tools, pharmacists and the supply and distribution chain can secure medicines at relatively low cost by implementing simple systems that take the economic attractiveness out of counterfeiting.

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