A critical review of the remuneration systems for pharmacists

Changing patient consultation patterns in primary care: an investigation of uptake of the Minor Ailments Service in Scotland

“…Instead of simply concentrating on the impact of pharmacy ownership on service provision and quality, and characterising general medical practice as "NHS primary care" and pharmacy as the "for profit community pharmacy sector" as recent commentators have [9], more effort should be directed at commissioning services on the basis of appropriateness and quality. Renewed thought needs to be given to effective remuneration frameworks for community pharmacy [29,30] that appropriately incentivise both community pharmacy owners and practitioners.…”

Outpatient Antibiotic Use and Prevalence of Antibiotic-Resistant Pneumococci in France and Germany: A Sociocultural Perspective

“…A second factor is that until recently, French pharmacies were better remunerated if they dispensed large volumes of relatively expensive drugs such as oral broad-spectrum cephalosporins (59). By contrast, pharmacy remuneration in Germany is calculated by applying regressive percentages to different price bands: the lower the price, the higher the pharmacist’s share (60). Finally, the French pricing system has induced companies to develop aggressive promotional efforts and marketing campaigns to curb sales and compensate for low prices (53).…”

A comparative analysis of remuneration models for pharmaceutical professional services

“…Since hospital pharmacists are providing PPS on the terms of the employer and since the extent to which they can influence the content, quantity and quality of the service is likely to vary, studies of PPS provided in hospital pharmacies were excluded. Since two previous studies covered the literature on PPS remuneration models until 2006 [12,13], our search focused mainly on articles and reports published after 2006.…”