REMEDIUMREMEDIUM1561-59362658-3534Joint-Stock Company Chicot140010.32687/1561-5936-2022-26-1-42-49Original ArticleStructure and staff of hospital pharmacies in the Russian FederationZubkovV. V.zubkov.v@blood.ruYagudinaR. I.-DrokovM. Yu.-I. M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Sechenov University)National Medical Research Centre for Hematology15122022261424929032022Copyright © 2022,2022Introduction. An important item of expenditure of health facilities (HF) is the purchase of medicines, medical devices and other goods that are provided by pharmacies - structural divisions of the HF. The purpose of the work is to study the current state of the hospital pharmacies in Russia.Materials and methods. To collect data on hospital pharmacies in Russia, an online questionnaire was conducted using an online questionnaire we developed, which consisted of 78 questions. Responses were received from 233 HF in 65 Federal subjects of the Russian Federation of all federal districts.Results. The median number of beds in the HF served by the pharmacy is 308, and the median commodity circulation is 48 million rubles. Only 27.9% of hospital pharmacies of the Moscow Region have a license for the manufacture of drugs, and 21.9% - for the manufacture of sterile drugs. About 20% of hospital pharmacies have departments in their structure. It was found that the value of the area of the hospital pharmacies is directly proportional to the number of HF beds (r = 0.564) and the value of commodity circulation in monetary terms (r = 0.425). The range of products of the hospital pharmacy is represented by medicines, medical devices for treatment, medical devices for diagnostics and disinfectants, which requires special competencies for competent planning and procurement. The most common positions are the head of a pharmacy, a pharmacist and a pharmacist-technologist. Median occupancy rates in absolute terms (4.0) and the number of pharmaceutical workers employed per 100 beds (1.2) may indicate an unmet need for staff, which is confirmed by data on a shortage of specialists in more than 60% of HF and the value of the actual deficit rates (more than 15%) in the absence of current staffing standards. Personnel aging continues, and its renewal on the part of university graduates is difficult. The need for updating the legal regulation of the activities of pharmacies of the Moscow Region is demonstrated.hospital pharmacyinstitutional pharmacypharmaceutical carelegal regulation of pharmaceutical activitiesбольничная аптекааптека медицинской организациифармацевтическая помощьнормативно-правовое регулирование фармацевтической деятельности1.Солонинина А. В., Ягудина Р. И. Современные реалии аптек лечебно-профилактических учреждений // Клиническая фармация. 2012. № 1. С. 109.2.Рыжова О. А. Организация деятельности больничных аптек в современных условиях // Управление качеством в здравоохранении. 2016. № 3. С. 36-42.3.Бреднева Н. Д., Угрюмова Т. А., Кирушок Г. И., Мельникова В. В. Роль аптеки медицинской организации в лекарственном обеспечении пациентов // Медицинская наука и образование Урала. 2019. Т. 20, № 2. С. 102-108.4.Кожанкова Д. С., Коннова М. А., Мищенко М. А., Чеснокова Н. Н. Особенности нормативно-правового регулирования деятельности аптек медицинских организаций // Крымский научный вестник. 2019. № 3. С. 22-29.5.Михайлова В. Н., Солонинина А. В. О разработке правил надлежащей аптечной практики в аптеках учреждений здравоохранения // Вестник Пермской государственной фармацевтической академии. 2007. № 3. С. 86-89.6.Тельнова Е. А. Розничный фармацевтический рынок: основные проблемы и пути их решения // Вестник Росздравнадзора. 2014. № 6. С. 59-64.7.Росстат. Здравоохранение в России. 2021. М.; 2021. 171 с.8.Frontini R., Miharija-Gala T., Sykora J. EAHP Survey 2010 on hospital pharmacy in Europe: Part 1. General frame and staffing // Eur. J. Hosp. Pharm. Sci. Pract. 2012. Vol. 19, N 4. P. 385-387.