For doctors, pharmacists, clinical pharmacists, heads of healthcare facilities, and scientists!
For developers of healthcare facility drug formularies and other interested parties!
The State Formulary of Medicinal Products (hereinafter, the State Formulary) is a guide to the rational use of medicinal products, containing a list of medicinal products registered in Ukraine that includes high-quality, effective, safe, and cost-effective medicinal products, as proven by evidence-based medicine.
The purpose of introducing the formulary system is to ensure the priority use of effective, safe and economically affordable medicinal products, and to develop and implement a cost-effective system for the use of medicinal products and material resources at all levels.
The formulary system is a set of management methods in healthcare that ensures the use of rational, organizationally and economically effective methods of supplying and using medicinal products in order to ensure, under specific conditions, high-quality medical care and optimal use of available resources; an information and economic doctrine of the rational use of medicinal products. The basic principle of the formulary system is the use of medicinal products with proven efficacy in a given pathological process.
Functions of the formulary system:
Medical – defining and developing methods of rational pharmacotherapy of common diseases.
Pharmacological – ensuring control over the proper use of medicinal products and taking measures to prevent and correct iatrogenic errors.
Social – providing patients with medicinal products of proven clinical efficacy.
Economic – use of the most clinically effective and cost-effective medicinal products.
Informational – dissemination of objective information on the efficacy and safety of medicinal products.
Professional and educational – improving the competence and qualifications of medical and pharmaceutical professionals.
The State Formulary is created in accordance with the Methodology for Creating a Medicinal Product Formulary, approved by MoH order of 19.06.2026 No. 845 "Certain Issues of Developing Sectoral Standards in the Healthcare Sector", registered with the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on 30 July 2026 under No. 1090/46484.
The 18th edition of the State Formulary was approved by MoH of Ukraine Order of 27.07.2026 No. 1021 "On Approval of the Eighteenth Edition of the State Formulary of Medicinal Products and Ensuring Its Availability".
