Legal nature of pharmaceutical care in Poland—health benefit or pharmaceutical service?
Legal nature of pharmaceutical care in Poland—health benefit or pharmaceutical service?

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the legal nature of pharmaceutical care in Poland. The purpose of this article isan attempt to determine the status of pharmaceutical care after the enactment of the PharmaceuticalProfession Act. The separation of pharmaceutical care from pharmaceutical services in this Actaims to emphasize its priority in fulfilling the social mission of the pharmacy. However, from thePharmaceutical Law Act (Journal of Laws of 2024 item 686) it can be inferred that pharmaceuticalcare remains as a part of the pharmaceutical services provided in a pharmacy. The presentation ofthe article’s topic was made using literature on pharmaceutical law (analysis and critique of liter-ature). Additionally, texts of individual acts and governmental drafts of their justifications werenecessary for explaining detailed issues. The basic research method adopted in this work is thelinguistic-logical analysis of legal texts (also known as the dogmatic-legal method or documentanalysis), i.e., the texts of acts included in various parts of the work and, where necessary, the caselaw of administrative courts. The conducted analysis leads to the conclusion that it is difficult toqualify pharmaceutical care as a service with a uniform status. There is currently no obstacleto treating pharmaceutical care both as a pharmaceutical service and a health benefit in order toobtain public funding for pharmaceutical care.

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