Petra Kranjec

Lekarna Ljubljana is the largest public pharmacy institute in Slovenia. It was founded by the City Municipality of Ljubljana. Throughout its years of operation, the Lekarna Ljubljana pharmacy follows its mission and has created a trustworthy environment in units where ensuring a high quality, efficient and continuous supply of medicines and other products to support treatment and preserve health, and advises on their safe, correct and effective use. It has formed into a modern pharmacy network over the past two decades with a clear vision of constant progress and the development of pharmacy activity. As part of the implementation of pharmaceutical treatment services, the pharmacy professionals advise patients on a healthy lifestyle, help them break bad habits and perform different measurements. The drug use review helps increase the effectiveness of drug treatment and improve the quality of life. Lekarna Ljubljana was the first in Slovenia to develop a telepharmacy service in 2020, a way of consulting remotely with the help of modern telecommunications technologies, enabling customers to obtain professional advice from Masters of Pharmacy in the comfort of their home. The Lekarna Ljubljana pharmacy continues to follow the trends in the field of the digitalisation and informatization of operations and the use of new technologies. Lekarna Ljubljana has 54 pharmacy units. It supplies medicines and other products for the preservation of health and wellbeing to residents of the City Municipality of Ljubljana and the inhabitants of 19 surrounding municipalities. It supplies the entire Slovenia with certain products via the online pharmacy.