TY - JOUR T1 - Rise of pharmacist-managed clinics in Guangdong Province, China JF - European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy JO - Eur J Hosp Pharm SP - 290 LP - 290 DO - 10.1136/ejhpharm-2018-001579 VL - 25 IS - 5 AU - Zhihua Zheng AU - Yingtong Zeng AU - Junyan Wu Y1 - 2018/09/01 UR - http://ejhp.bmj.com/content/25/5/290.abstract N2 - Previously, hospital pharmacies could sell drugs to patients with markups in China. In 2009, the Chinese government passed the Zero-Markup Drug Policy, which strives to contain the costs of drugs and ultimately reduce the financial burden to the public, and drug price markups ended in China’s public hospitals in 2017. Thus pharmacy departments in China’s public hospitals must transform from drug supply to clinical service. The European Statements of Hospital Pharmacy issued by European Association of Hospital Pharmacists (EAHP) also emphasises clinical pharmacy services by hospital pharmacists. As hospitals have outpatient departments in China, opening pharmacist-managed clinics in hospitals is a good choice. … ER -