Национальный фармацевтический университет, Харьков, Украина Research existing organizational structure and personnel provision of pharmacy chains in Ukraine under implementation of good pharmaceutical practice Исследование существующей организационной структуры и кадрового обеспечения аптечной сети в Украине в условиях внедрения надлежащей аптечной практики ______________________ Abstract __________________________________________________________________________ In the article the types of organizational management structure of the network pharmaceutical enterprises have been researched; the distribution of pharmacies based on the number of trade outlets and the way of trade has been analyzed; the personnel provision of pharmacy chains in Ukraine has been studied. <...> The condition of the implementation of quality system in the work of researched network’s pharmacies has been determined. <...> Keywords: pharmacy chains, organizational management structures, personnel provision, quality management system. ______________________ Резюме __________________________________________________________________________ В статье исследованы типы организационной структуры управления сетевыми аптечными предприятиями, проанализировано распределение аптечных предприятий в зависимости от количества торговых точек и способа торговли и исследовано кадровое обеспечение аптечных сетей в Украине. <...> In scientific professional editions of pharmacy there are articles devoted to issues on reforming the organizational structure of manufacturing enterprises in the implementation of quality management system [1], improving the organizational structure of pharmaceutical companies under the logistics approach [2], the adaptation of the organizational structure of pharmaceutical companies to external changes and the issues of personnel provision and social protection of pharmacies’ staff [3–12]. <...> There is almost no information in the literature the study of characteristics of organizational structure and personnel policy of network pharmacy enterprises. <...> THE PURPOSE OF THE WORK Study the existing organizational structure and personnel provision of pharmacy chains and identifying perspective areas of improvement in the implementation of standards of good pharmaceutical practice. <...> RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Pharmaceutical segment Ukrainian pharmaceutical market is very fragmented. <...> The share of the top 100 pharmacy chains by volume of pharmaceutical sales in monetary terms increased from 57.8% in I quarter 2013 to 60.3% in I quarter 2015 [13]. <...> We conducted a ranking of the top 10 pharmacy chains in Ukraine by the number of TO and by volume of pharmaceutical sales in monetary terms for the results of I quarter 2015 (table) [13]. <...> It was established <...>