Sales of prescription medicines in 2023



In 2023, 495.1 million prescriptions were issued, of which 96.6% were in electronic form, i.e. 0.8 percentage points more than in 2022.
In 2023, 495.1 million prescriptions were issued (41.8 million more than a year ago), of which 96.6% were electronic prescriptions (in 2022, the percentage of electronic prescriptions in the total number of prescriptions was 95.8%).
In 2023, there was no more than a 1.9 percentage point difference in the percentage of electronic prescriptions issued across voivodships[1]. The highest percentage of electronic prescriptions occurred, as in 2022, in the pomorskie voivodship (97.6%) and the lowest in podkarpackie voivodship (95.7%). In the case of poviats, the highest percentage of electronic prescriptions were observed in poviats: siedlecki (99.3%), moniecki (99.2%), grudziądzki (99.1%), while the lowest in poviats: węgrowski (88.0%), sanocki (91.1%), chodzieski (91.2%) and ropczycko-sędziszowski (91.3%).
[1] According to the address of the pharmacy or pharmacy where the prescription was completed.