CSO
Wholesalers secure funding boost
Government announces $4.2 billion Pharmacy Wholesaler Agreement to “ensure medicines stay cheaper and on pharmacy shelves” Community Service Obligation (CSO) wholesalers will see a 34% increase in funding from the …
Funding CSO ‘essential’: NPSA
Talks are continuing to secure new Pharmaceutical Wholesalers’ Agreement to future-proof the CSO More than four months after the government announced that funding for the distribution of medicines through Community …
Negotiations continue for CSO deal
New agreement for wholesalers on the horizon following signing of 8CPA Funding for the distribution of medicines through Community Service Obligation wholesalers will be allocated through a new deal outside …
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 …
“It’s a disaster, and we all need to say no.”
A key stakeholder has urged pharmacists to refuse the National Medicines Traceability Framework, saying it is an “abject failure” in Europe and making it harder for pharmacists to do their …
Let pharmacists solve supply
Call to empower pharmacists to help improve medicine supply through therapeutic substitutions and continued dispensing Supply issues raised by the international COVID-19 pandemic were top of the agenda at the …
Is the CSO just a sham?
Rural pharmacists are being stonewalled by authorities and feeling anything but assured, argues the Rural Pharmacy Network Australia While pharmacy leaders and wholesalers parade in the media seeking to reassure …
Equity goes out the window?
Claims that rural pharmacies have been experiencing shortages after an “unprecedented run” on PBS medicines by large groups The Rural Pharmacy Network Australia (RPNA) has called for an investigation into …
A win for full-line wholesalers
Pharmaceutical manufacturer ditches direct distribution model for CSO wholesalers in move driven by pharmacist feedback AstraZeneca has announced it will exit its exclusive-direct distribution arrangements and return supply of its …
Setting the record straight
Pharmacy’s “critical business partners” tell the true story of their value to the healthcare system as 7CPA approaches Pharmacy, and indeed the healthcare system, could not survive with the service …
Keeping up supply
Wholesalers win bipartisan support in election run-up The National Pharmaceutical Services Association (NPSA) has welcomed recent commitments by both major parties to the future of the pharmaceutical supply chain ahead …
A healthy budget
Guild lauds pharmacy budget boost as AHI fee, CSO payments, DAAs and medication management gain extra funds The Pharmacy Guild of Australia says it “welcomes confirmation that the Budget will …