Hippocrates Holding is Italy’s leading independent pharmacy platform with more than 400 owned pharmacies in its network in Central and Northern Italy. The company was founded in March 2018 by Davide Tavaniello and Rodolfo Guarino, co-CEOs of Hippocrates. Since then it has approached the pharmacy sector with an industrial and long-term logic focusing on building a core healthcare infrastructure platform. In Italy, pharmacies are a key element of the National Healthcare System (NHS) which are widely recognised as the essential first point of access for patients to healthcare advice and which are the only channel allowed for the sale of prescription drugs. Hippocrates is leveraging its scale, experience and industrial platform capabilities to offer the best healthcare advice to patients and to continue enhancing the performance and operations of its pharmacies.