location rules
The right location?
The Australian Community Pharmacy Authority has been ordered to reconsider its rejection of an application to supply pharmaceutical benefits from a WA medical centre An initial application for a pharmacy …
Dawesville Chemmart’s long battle to get PBS approval number
It’s been a long battle for the Dawesville Chemmart, but more than 18 months after it first opened, the WA pharmacy has finally been granted its PBS approval number. Health …
Disaster dispensing rules to be changed
The National Health Amendments (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2016 has been read for the second time, proposing changes which will make life easier for PBS pharmacies affected by disaster. Flexibility regarding …
Locals sign petition for their pharmacy to be approved for PBS
Locals from the outer Newcastle suburb of Fletcher have signed a petition to have their only pharmacy, the Your Chemist Shop Fletcher, approved as a PBS pharmacy. Currently the pharmacy …
Face the facts, doctor: Part two
Pharmacy Guild of Australia’s Victorian branch president, Anthony Tassone, responds to comments by Dr Evan Ackermann This is the second part of a two-part rebuttal published on the AJP. Read part …
CWH attacks location rules, Guild hits back
Chemist Warehouse and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia go head-to-head on location rules in their Pharmacy Review submissions Both the giant pharmacy chain and membership organisation commissioned analyses of the …
Owners speak up on location rules
Should they be left alone, tweaked or scrapped altogether? King Review submissions reveal a variety of opinions So far the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation has received and published …
Location rules here to stay
Abolishing location rules would be ‘stupid policy’, Stephen King argues, but modifications are likely It would be “extremely surprising” if the Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation Review panel recommended abolishing …
Don’t alter a framework that works: economist
A leading economist has backed the existing location and ownership rules of community pharmacy. Delivering the annual Judy Liauw address at the Pharmacy Connect conference in Sydney, economist Professor Henry …
King Review national webcast: remuneration, location rules & HMRs
Participants posed some tough questions about pharmacy pay and restrictions, but what did the panel have to say? Chair of the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation, Professor Stephen King, …
Pharmacy location rules in question
The King Review discussion paper is scrutinising location and ownership rules, and supermarket restrictions Currently there are 11 pharmacy location rules agreed to by the Department of Health and the …
Bank rethink story flawed: Guild
Pharmacy Guild executive director David Quilty has written to the editor of The Weekend Australian, following claims banks could change pharmacy lending behaviour as a result of the long-awaited King …