Gesundheit Österreich Forschungs- und Planungsgesellschaft GmbH (GÖG FP), a subsidiary of Gesundheit Österreich GmbH (GÖG) / Austrian Health Institute was commissioned by the Association of Danish Pharmacies (Danmarks Apotekerforening) to survey and analyse community pharmacy systems in selected European countries. The aim of the study was to understand the community pharmacy systems of countries with a deregulated community pharmacy sector (England, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden) on the one hand and countries with a regulated community pharmacy sector
(Austria, Denmark, Finland, and Spain) on the other hand, and to identify possible parallels between these two groups of countries.