‘He has no intention of ever working with his health professional colleagues in pharmacy.’

Comments about pharmacist prescribing from a prominent critic were “abhorrent,” says the Guild’s acting national president Writing in Medical Observer, Dr Evan Ackermann, a Queensland GP and chair of the RACGP’s national standing committee on quality, said that there would be “regulatory incompetence on a grand scale” if pharmacist prescribing were permitted. He compared the