Table 2

Human resource and investment (infrastructure and IT) costs required for initial implementation and maintaining of serialisation for hospital pharmacies

Institution size			Small 1–500 beds			Medium 501–1000 beds			Large above 1000 beds
Institution size			n	Mean	±SD	n	Mean	±SD	n	Mean	±SD
Workload increase* (hours/day/pharmacy)	Pharmacist	Initial	19	0.86	1.25	11	0.96	0.71	13	0.96	0.78
	Pharmacist	Future		0.74	1.78		1.30	1.23		1.58	1.73
	Technician	Initial		2.03	1.54		1.54	0.56		3.19	1.32
	Technician	Future		3.05	3.47		2.75	1.32		6.38	4.84
Non-human investments† (EUR/pharmacy)	IT	Initial	18	855	648	10	1292	628	13	2486	2038
	IT	Future	5	853	345	5	1280	362	3	803	609
	Infrastructure	Initial	2	226	106	3	224	328	7	2810	4930
	Infrastructure	Future	3	873	740	3	497	613	0	–	–

*Initial change until implementation as of February 2019, and estimated future change during the stabilisation period until all prescription-only medicine packages are serialised.
†Descriptive data are presented for institutions providing data on self-financed investments necessary to meet FMD requirements. Currency conversion rate is €1=3HUF332, as of September 2019, the time of survey.
FMD, Falsified Medicines Directive.