How to fill the gap of talents in the Internet drugstore

Source: Southern Metropolis Daily, June 12, 2014, with the State Food and Drug Administration seeking opinions on online sales of prescription drugs, the news about the conditional grading and lifting of ban on online sales of prescription drugs is currently fermented in the pharmaceutical industry However, a reporter from Nandu recently learned from the school of pharmacy management of China under the Southern Institute of pharmaceutical economics under the State Food and Drug Administration (hereinafter referred to as CFDA) At present, there are 460000 pharmacies in China, but only 277940 licensed pharmacists are assigned, while only 78557 licensed pharmacists work in retail pharmacies, many of them are affiliated The allocation of licensed pharmacists will not only affect the new GSP certification process in the drug retail industry, but also affect the process of opening the ban on the sale of prescription drugs in online pharmacies As of December 31, 2013, 277940 certified pharmacists have passed the qualification examination According to the statistical analysis in February 2014, there are 110273 certified pharmacists in China Among them, there are only 78557 people in drug chain and lingshihou drugstore, accounting for 71%; 25537 people in drug wholesale enterprises, accounting for 23.2%; 3458 people in drug production enterprises, accounting for 3.1%; 2721 people in drug use units, accounting for 2.5% Recently, Guangdong has only 11616 licensed pharmacists and about 3000 licensed pharmacists from other provinces There are more than 200 chain drugstores in the province, and the proportion of licensed pharmacists in the total of more than 50000 drug retail stores is less than 30% Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Zhanjiang are among the top three registered people in the province "The role of licensed pharmacists in pharmacies should be to make the best of their talents and to exceed their value But now the problem is that when pharmacies are equipped with licensed pharmacists, they are faced with the problem of "high cost" The reason for the high cost lies in that many licensed pharmacists play a role in pharmacies that is not much different from that of ordinary drug salesmen, and the asking price of licensed pharmacists is significantly higher than that of ordinary salesmen " An expert in charge of the registration and certification of licensed pharmacists in Guangdong said frankly At present, there is not much buffer time for retail pharmacies According to the new GSP certification method, all new pharmacies need to be GSP certified For the retail pharmacies that have been built, the license must be renewed when it expires According to the requirements of the new GSP, every drugstore needs to be equipped with licensed pharmacists, which makes the gap between licensed pharmacists very large This does not include the market demand for licensed pharmacists once the online B2C drugstore is opened "CFDA's previous documents were for comments only The new GSP certification for prescription drug online sales, in fact, the resistance is not small "