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As our Industry enters a new phase, what can Community Pharmacy do to remain a key component of patient health care? Second time Pharmacy of the Year Award winner Swarup …

Funding for community pharmacy services needs to be “fair”, in light of the government’s plan to roll out double dispensing, Dr Monique Ryan, believes  Australia needs to value the work …

Plans to boost access to affordable medicines will have the opposite effect Coalition Chief Whip warns  Labor’s double dispensing policy will leave patients with limited access to pharmacy services and …

Labor’s double dispensing policy may secure positive headlines, but independent MP, Kylea Tink, warns it will not be a win for everyone  Teal, Tink, is calling on the government to …

Double dispensing decision leaves doctor “flabbergasted”  Labor’s plan to introduce 60-day dispensing will have significant unintended consequences, a former Assistant Health Minister warns.  Speaking in the House of Representatives on …

Community pharmacists are being urged to “keep the pressure on the government” to limit the adverse impacts of 60-day dispensing  Government officials need to restart negotiations with community pharmacy leaders …

Double dispensing advocate seeks safe scope expansion for pharmacists  Doctor-turned-politician, Dr Monique Ryan, is urging the federal government appropriately support the community pharmacy sector to mitigate against the adverse impacts …

Double dispensing will result in the “Aldification” of community pharmacy, a customer warns  Plans to roll out 60-day dispensing will turn pharmacies into impersonal stores, where shoppers “shuffle in and …

Loyal staff members will see their hours cut, “at best” – as a result of the government’s double dispensing policy, a pharmacy owner warns  Pharmacy owners will be forced to …

Double dispensing will test Australia’s medicines supply chain, but Sigma Healthcare bosses believe they have the capacity to deliver for pharmacies  Pharmaceutical wholesaler, Sigma Healthcare is well placed to deal …

Suggestions that pharmacists are seen as “retailers… clipping the ticket” and not health professionals, have infuriated pharmacists   Minister for Finance, Senator Katy Gallagher, is being accused of enraging the entire …

Impact analysis used to support the decision to introduce double dispensing would have benefited from more consultations with pharmacists, a bureaucrat believes  An assessment of the impact analysis used to …