In the UK most pharmacists are not now allowed to make their own meds, despite being trained to do certain basics. It's all to do with the risks of contamination and, I suppose, clinical error (very unlikely on the simpler meds they'd be doing). They are all usually now made up, along with "special" out of the ordinary scripts, at the big hospital pharmacies and then shipped back out. This of course is costing the NHS even more. Even things like Simple Cream, which they learn to do in their first year at uni, are not allowed. (My dad was a dispenser in the 1950s/60s and he used to make up quite a few things). The most they seem to do now is decant from larger bulk containers into the smaller dispensing ones, and add water to the powdered antibiotic mixtures for kids etc.
The move here is to get the pharmacists more and more involved in frontline basic healthcare. Some pharmacists are now being trained to prescribe for minor ailments. Most of them do medication reviews on behalf of GPs too.

Of course the stuff that's available over the counter and which is not varies from country to country. I can't buy an aspirin/paracetamol combination in New Zealand, (although I can buy them separately), but we got sold a hospital-strength antibiotic in Greece, 4 years ago, for a water infection one of our party had. It was so strong it made them vomit after 2 doses, so we stopped it on advice from my daughter, who said the only time she had come across that was when she was doing her hospital placements!

Other countries won't allow anything with codeine unless prescribed, because it's an opiate.

Funny old world.

Andrea