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Patients still skipping medications due to costs
Cost remains a barrier preventing many patients from accessing prescription medicines, despite the $12.50 reduction in the PBS general co-payment Further cuts to the maximum Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) co-payment are …
Owners issued oversight warning
Proprietors are being urged to take steps to ensure they have full oversight of “every facet of the business” following complaints against pharmacists Pharmacy owners in NSW are being reminded …
Supermarket threat spawned Chemist Warehouse
While the creep of new players into pharmacy is “inevitable”, pharmacy owners should focus on their own business, says CWH’s Mario Tascone It was the fear of disruption from supermarkets …
Guild seeks further PBS co-pay cut
Politicians are being told to “put their money where their mouth is” and slash the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme general co-payment by $11 Claims that healthcare is a priority for Australia’s …
Pharmacies to keep palliative patients out of EDs
Community pharmacies are set to play an important role in easing pressure on public hospitals through funding to stock palliative care medications Pharmacies across rural and metropolitan South Australia will …
Make medicines more affordable: Guild
Federal Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is facing renewed calls to cut the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) general co-payment for the second time in next month’s Budget Having successfully secured a $12.50 …
Boyatzis takes AGNC chair
Western Australian pharmacist to lead Amcal and Guardian National Council Former Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) WA Pharmacist of the Year, Angela Boyatzis, will chair the Amcal and Guardian …
Pharmacy rules exclude young pharmacists from ownership
Restrictive policies also strangle innovation and “don’t serve” the community, CWH boss tell AJP Pharmacy location rules inflate the value of existing pharmacies, keep the next generation out of ownership …
Gance wins Entrepreneur Of The Year award
CWH co-founder a “disruptive pioneer”—pips six others to regional gong from “big four” consultancy EY Chemist Warehouse co-founder and chairman, Jack Gance, has been named EY Entrepreneur Of The Year …
Guild pleads for 7CPA funding boost
Pharmacy Guild of Australia leaders are in Canberra for the final parliamentary sitting week ahead of the federal Budget amid a Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement funding crisis With a funding …
Rents hit by inflation
Spike in rural rental prices revealed by report, while inflationary pressures are hitting rents especially hard in one state While the status quo has been maintained in terms of …
Time to deliver on 7CPA promises: wholesalers
Funding arrangements for pharmaceutical wholesalers in the Seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement (7CPA) are not being honoured, an industry leader says Wholesalers are being short-changed by failures to honour the “the …