Here pharmaconomists play a central role. Pharmaconomists are trained to function as the connecting link between the locations where medicine is handled.

Pharmaconomists are distributed by work place as follows (1.1.2010):

• 3216 at private pharmacies
• 712 at hospitals
• 469 in industry
• 372 students
• 809 passive members

The qualifications of pharmaconomists are regulated by law

A pharmaconomist is authorised to

• dispense and check prescriptions
• counsel customers about the use of medicine
• dispense, sell and provide information about prescription and over-the-counter medicine
• undertake specialist and managerial operation of branch pharmacies, and
• undertake duty service