Find a pharmacy in Alfter
Alfter is a municipality of roughly 23,000 residents in the Rhein-Sieg-Kreis, sitting on the western edge of Bonn between the Vorgebirge hills and the city's commuter belt. PillsCard lists five verified pharmacies covering the four historic Ortsteile — Alfter-Ort, Oedekoven, Witterschlick and Impekoven — which together absorb most foot traffic from local households, commuters working in Bonn's federal-government quarter, and students linked to the Alanus Hochschule near Schloss Alfter. There is no concentrated medical quarter; pharmacies sit close to the Hauptstraße corridors and the Bundesstraße 56, with provision following residential density rather than clustering around a single hospital. The catchment skews toward families, older residents, and cross-village patients who often combine errands with appointments at GPs in Bonn-Duisdorf or Roisdorf.
The five-pharmacy landscape is fragmented and owner-operated rather than chain-dominated, which is typical for Nordrhein-Westfalen because German law still restricts ownership to licensed pharmacists. The Quellen-Apotheke and Apotheke Sonnenschein anchor the older village core around Alfter-Ort, while the Bären-Apotheke and Sonnen-Apotheke serve the denser Oedekoven and Witterschlick wards along the tram line toward Bonn. The Glocken Apotheke rounds out coverage on the Roisdorf-facing edge. None operate as branches of DocMorris or Shop Apotheke storefronts; instead, most participate in the Apothekerkammer Nordrhein duty network and stock the standard Rezept (prescription) and OTC ranges, with several offering compounding, blood-pressure checks, and vaccination services under the recent pharmacy-led immunisation rules.
Pricing & coverage
For GKV-insured patients the statutory prescription co-pay is 5–10 EUR per item, capped at 2% of annual gross income (1% for chronic patients). OTC paracetamol 500 mg (20 tabs) typically runs 2–5 EUR, ibuprofen 400 mg around 4–7 EUR, and a standard influenza vaccination administered in-pharmacy 15–25 EUR — reimbursable for eligible cohorts. PKV holders are billed in full and claim back per their tariff. Reference prices (Festbeträge) and reimbursement categories are set nationally; the regulator BfArM maintains the authoritative drug database, while pricing rules sit with the GKV-Spitzenverband and the Arzneimittelpreisverordnung.
Emergencies & out-of-hours care
Alfter has no 24-hour pharmacy of its own; out-of-hours cover runs on the Apothekerkammer Nordrhein Notdienst rota, which rotates duty between Alfter, Bornheim, Bonn-Duisdorf and Meckenheim each night and weekend. The current duty pharmacy is posted on the door of every Apotheke and at aponet.de. For acute medical emergencies — chest pain, stroke symptoms, severe trauma — call 112; the nearest A&E capabilities sit at the Johanniter-Krankenhaus and Universitätsklinikum Bonn, both under 15 minutes by road. For non-life-threatening after-hours medical issues, the national doctor on-call line 116117 routes patients to the regional Bereitschaftsdienst.
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