MAIN TRENDS IN MIGRATION OF ROMANIAN PHARMACISTS BETWEEN 2015 AND 2022

Romanian pharmacists tend to relocate to more developed countries, as also happens in other European states. In this study, we have addressed a relevant issue for the national health system in landscaping the migration phenomenon of professional pharmacists. Descriptive analysis has been conducted based on the reports of current professional certificates issued by the competent authority. The main finding is the consistency of the migration phenomenon, which seems almost significantly unaffected by economic crises, Brexit or the COVID-19 pandemic. The authorities should take charge and adopt measures that will retain and ease the pharmacists' return to their home country, providing, at the same time, the modernisation and improvement of the healthcare system and increasing the patients' accessibility to qualitative pharmaceutical care.