The trend to offer personalized food supplements, whether in the form of vitamin subscriptions or specially composed capsules and liquids, offers great potential for patient-specific secondary pouch packaging.

Many community pharmacies across the UK and Ireland are already taking advantage of automation to free up the space, time and resources needed to become more customer facing, handle additional services and grow the business. So is a BD Rowa dispensing robot right for your pharmacy?

Patient convenience is an important argument for individual medication packaging. In a patient survey conducted by the University of Basel, patients who receive their medicines in pouches were asked about their experiences.