Documentation Proposed framework

Access, in five reasons

Getting to the pharmacy is not a given for everyone. Five reasons to rethink access, including an explicit recommendation from the European health authorities.

• Chronic patients. 29.2% of people aged 65 and over take at least five medicines a day; polypharmacy, and therefore the frequency of pharmacy visits, increases with age.
• The risk of contamination. The ECDC, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, put it in writing: “Home delivery of medicines should be considered to reduce the number of patients visiting the pharmacy.”
• The home / care-facility inequity. In care facilities, dispensing without travel is already in the law (sealed packet, art. 3). At home, no equivalent channel exists.
• Dependency. Around 10,530 dependent people are cared for at home in 2025 (CNS estimate).
• Discretion. Some treatments expose the patient to the eyes of others: the sealed parcel protects their privacy until handover.

SOURCES · ECDC, 2020 · J CLIN MED, 2025 (SHARE DATA) · CNS, LONG-TERM CARE INSURANCE BUDGET 2025 · AMENDED LAW OF 25 NOVEMBER 1975, ART. 3