double dispensing
Regional pharmacy reduces hours ahead off double-dispensing hit
Former POTY tries to “get ahead of the inevitable impact” from government policy change A regional NSW pharmacy will be reducing its trading hours from early next month in an …
Almost 21k jobs to go, 665 pharmacies to close; Guild report
One sixth of pharmacies under “financial stress” if government doesn’t relent on double-dispensing Close to 21,000 jobs will be lost, 665 pharmacies will close and another 944 – one sixth …
The week in review
Canberra was the focus this week, as pharmacists received King’s Birthday honours… while 60-day dispensing was a hot topic in Parliament There were fiery exchanges in Parliament about 60-day dispensing …
‘We’ll be left with the Woolworths and Coles of pharmacies’
Queensland MP Bob Katter has doubled down on comments made in Parliament, calling double dispensing a deregulation “nightmare” In Parliament on 13 June, Katter had asked Health Minister Mark Butler …
Butler claims longer script lengths improve compliance
Nationals leader David Littleproud has demanded the Health Minister produce modelling around ‘pharmacies that he’s going to destroy’ Littleproud was ejected from the House of Representatives after repeatedly interrupting the …
How policy change will affect residential aged care
Michael Bonner, clinical pharmacist, pharmacy owner and CEO of Choice Aged Care, talks to AJP Podcast host Carlene McMaugh about the “seismic” policy change of 60-day dispensing He’s confident that …
Katter warns of ‘Chemist Warehouse and TerryWhite duopoly’
‘Isn’t this really about greedy doctors?’ independent MP Bob Katter has asked the Health Minister – who defended double dispensing and pharmacists’ “$100 billion” in earnings Queensland MP Bob Katter …
‘They’re ripping the guts out of pharmacy’
Double dispensing is “not over, by any means,” Opposition deputy Sussan Ley has told Sydney pharmacists, as one store owner prepares to keep fighting A multiple award-winning Sydney pharmacy will …
‘It’s about much more than the medication.’
One of Australia’s leading consultant pharmacists has spoken out against 60-day dispensing, warning of loss of social connections and of wasted medicines “The more medicines people have in their houses, …
‘How many meetings with MPs do we have to have?’
Pharmacists at a meeting with the Minister for Communications had to explain the unprecedented nature of the 60-day dispensing policy, an award-winning pharmacist says Jenna Cormack, owner of Priceline The …
Doctor and patient groups make 60-day dispensing plea
MPs and Senators are being urged to back legislation that will see maximum dispense quantities increase for 325 molecules Medical organisations, health, and patient advocacy groups are calling on federal …
‘You just destroyed community pharmacy’: the road to 60-day dispensing
The community pharmacy sector has been shaken to its very core by the government announcing a move to 60-day dispensing for around 300 medicines. How did it come to this? …