Fact Sheet

• According to research, pharmacy technicians are involved with the input, preparation and/or filling of more than 96% of the prescriptions dispensed in community pharmacies.
  
  
• Pharmacy technicians are typically the first and last staff member to interact with patients at retail pharmacies; often they are the only staff member to interact with the patient.
  
  
•  92% of the US population live in states that do NOT require formal education of pharmacy technicians.
  
  
• 81% of the US population live in states that do NOT require any competency-based assessment of pharmacy technicians.
  
  
• 49.8% of the US population live in states that do NOT require any standard of training for pharmacy technicians.
  
  
• 39.1% of the US population live in states where pharmacy technicians are NOT registered, and therefore NOT monitored.