6^th World Pharmacists & Clinical Pharmacy Annual Congress

Pharmacy Practice

Based on International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) the guidelines for Good Pharmaceutical Practice were first laid in 1993. And further used as reference by national pharmaceutical organisations, governments, and international pharmaceutical organizations to set up nationally accepted standards. The aim is  to "contribute to health improvement and to help patients with health problems to make the best use of their medicines. This statistic shows total medicines expenditure worldwide in 2010 and 2015, and provides a forecast for 2020. In 2010, total spending on medicine was 887 billion U.S. dollars. It is estimated that until 2020 the pharmaceutical market will increase to around 1.4 trillion U.S. dollars.