Deontological violations of community pharmacies in Turkey
Deontological violations are important in terms of reputation of public health, pharmacy profession, and protection of public finance. The aim of this study is to determine types and prevalence of deontological crimes reflected in records of High Honor Court (HHC) in Turkish Pharmacists’ Association (TPA), to develop proposals on corrective and preventive occupational policies. Crime types in disciplinary files were classified according to classification method of deontological crimes in 3-groups, and results were evaluated by frequency and percentage distributions. In the study, 32 deontological crime types and 112 criminal cases were detected. Accordingly, it was found that deontological crimes due to competition are in the first rank with 51 cases, TPA, Drug-Pharmacy Legislation violations in the second with 50 cases and Social Security Institution protocol provisions violations in the last rank with 11 cases, and in all types of crime, “collusion” is in the first rank (30.4%).It is thought that “collusion” crime being in the first rank increasing its share from 18.6% to 30.4% in all crimes despite increasing punishments. Persistence of crime despite punitive sanctions aggravated by recent regulations suggests that it is not possible to solve only by punitive sanctions, and it must be get to the bottom of the problem.
