Ditt Apotek

Ditt Apotek is a chain of 80

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owned and run by independent pharmacists on

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from

Norsk Medisinaldepot Norsk Medisinaldepot AS is a pharmaceutics and healthcare products wholesaler in Norway. It also operates the pharmacy chains Vitusapotek and the franchise chain Ditt Apotek. NMD is part of the Celesio group and has a total of 185 pharmacies in N ...

, a subsidiary of

McKesson Europe McKesson Europe AG (formerly Celesio AG, previously Gehe AG), with its headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany, is a leading international wholesale and retail company and provider of logistics and services in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sec ...

. The chain is the fourth largest, and thus smallest, in Norway. The chain was established in 2001 after the deregulation of the pharmacy market in Norway. The sister company

Vitusapotek Vitusapotek is a chain of 300 pharmacies in Norway owned and run by Norsk Medisinaldepot, a subsidiary of McKesson Europe. The pharmacy chain is based in Oslo, and is the second largest in Norway, after Apotek1. The chain was established in 2 ...

operates 133 pharmacies owned by the mother company. Among the members are the four state owned

pharmaceutical trust Health trust or HF ( no, helseforetak) is a health enterprise owned by one of the four regional health authorities in Norway, with responsibility for performing a geographic and/or specialist activities of operations on behalf of the regional heal ...

s that operate the pharmacies at the

hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...

Southern and Eastern Norway Pharmaceutical Trust Southern and Eastern Norway Pharmaceutical Trust ( no, Sykehusapotekene ANS) is a health trust owned by Southern and Eastern Norway Regional Health Authority that operates nineteen hospital pharmacies. The pharmacies are part of the Ditt Apotek ...

, Western Norway Pharmaceutical Trust,

Central Norway Pharmaceutical Trust Central Norway Pharmaceutical Trust ( no, Sykehusapotekene i Midt-Norge HF) is a health trust owned by Central Norway Regional Health Authority that operates four hospital pharmacies at St. Olavs Hospital in Trondheim, Kristiansund Hospital, Mo ...

, and

Northern Norway Pharmaceutical Trust Hospital Pharmacy of North Norway Trust ( no, Sykehusapotek Nord HF, se, Davvi Buohcceviessoapotehka) is a health trust owned by Northern Norway Regional Health Authority that operates six hospital pharmacies. The pharmacies are part of the D ...

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