remuneration
Clinical Intervention: a clinical or financial scheme?
This week’s contributor wanted to remain anonymous: here, our Guest Author asks whether the Clinical Intervention scheme should exist in its current form at all A brief overview Let’s begin …
Don’t discount PBS medicines, say pharmacists
Most pharmacists don’t believe they should ever be able to discount PBS-subsidised medicines, a King Review report has found This week, the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation released four …
Dispensing fees option could put pharmacies out of business
The Guild says it is still very concerned about the “true intentions” of the King Review Pharmacy Guild executive director David Quilty has written in Forefront that one measure put …
King Review option treats pharmacy like ‘utility company’
Several options in the King Review Interim Report, if ever implemented, could put community pharmacy at risk, says the Guild The Guild says that from the time of the Review’s …
I’ll see you at the Roadshow
PSA national president Joe Demarte is set to discuss the implications of the Pharmacy Remuneration and Reform Review February 2017 is an important month for PSA as the Remuneration and …
Is risk share talk bowing down to ‘big business’?
A Fairfax article detailing the Pharmacy Guild’s efforts to solve the risk share funding dispute with the Turnbull Government has had stakeholders talking on the weekend. “The country’s powerful pharmacy …
Remote dispensing equity
The Guild has welcomed the Prime Minister’s announcement that remuneration for dispensing medicines under the Remote Area Aboriginal Health Service Program will be adjusted to be equivalent to the PBS …
Govt working to ‘reconcile’ risk sharing arrangements
The federal government is confident agreement will be reached with pharmacists over risk sharing arrangements, the Prime Minister believes. Speaking in Canberra last night at the Pharmacy Guild’s annual Parliament …
Flat rates or tiered payment system?
The recently published UTS Barometer 2016 asked pharmacists whether the remuneration system needs to change An annual UTS and Bankwest-led initiative used to track pharmacy sector confidence, the Barometer asked …
Webstercare: remunerate the pharmacist
The designer of RxMedChart calls for accurate medication profiles and appropriate remuneration for pharmacists Webstercare’s submission to the Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation says it hopes the outcome of …
The blame game
Who or what is responsible for the decrease in pharmacy wages? We take a look at the issue from all angles Recently we covered the dissatisfaction that employee pharmacists are …
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, …