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The functioning of the pharmacy market in Poland is subject to strict statutory regulation. In striving to ensure the widest availability of services provided by generally accessible pharmacies to patients, the legislator introduced a solution consisting in granting county ('powiat') councils the power to issue local acts of law regarding the establishment of working hours of generally accessible pharmacies locally. Compliance with this obligation, however, faces various difficulties on the part of both pharmacies and self-government bodies, which negatively affects the effectiveness of the existing solution. The subject of this article is the assessment of existing legal solutions in the discussed area, together with a review of the proposed statutory changes developed by pharmacies self-government and the Association of Polish Counties ('powiat').

The aim of this article is to analyse legal regulations determining the appointment of the deputy head of the pharmacy in the light of the judgment of the Supreme Administrative Court of February 20, 2019, taking into account the importance of the final judgment for the protection of the interests of patients and pharmacists and strengthening the position of a pharmacist as a guarantor of public health protection.

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