Rural Pharmacy Network of Australia
Please don’t forget rural pharmacy
Advocacy group urges pharmacy bodies to support the rural pharmacy workforce by pushing for government-funded salary incentives The Rural Pharmacy Network Australia (RPNA) is urging the Pharmacy Guild of Australia …
‘This is a stuff-up and it really needs to be fixed.’
Funding program for rural, regional and remote pharmacy misses the mark, say pharmacists who claim they are worse off under recent changes The new Regional Pharmacy Maintenance Allowance (RPMA) does …
Should pharmacists be able to initiate reviews?
Changes to HMRs and RMMRs are welcome… although some are not appropriate for the longer term and others do not go far enough, argues pharmacy group Rural pharmacists have welcomed …
COVID-19 has ‘exposed’ systemic problems: rural pharmacists
Small pharmacies – including rural pharmacies – are still having problems obtaining PBS medicines, as advocacy group calls for a drastic change in the medicines supply chain Temporary nationalisation of …
Rural pharmacists want one-pharmacy town guarantee
What happens if a team member tests positive for COVID-19? Keeping the pharmacy doors open in a rural or remote town will be no easy task, says advocacy group Pharmacy …
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 …
‘The time is now to get rural right.’
Call for all parties to the 7CPA to give rural issues a priority While frontline pharmacists battle coronavirus panic, the Rural Pharmacy Network Australia is urging all parties to the …
‘Concern is growing.’
60-day dispensing will in some cases more than halve pharmacy remuneration and “incapacitate” rural pharmacies, says rural pharmacy group Concern is growing among rural pharmacists about the potential impacts of …
‘Jobs will be lost.’
Pharmacy group estimates average loss of $85k in gross profit per pharmacy if 60-day dispensing proposal goes forward With the 60-day dispensing proposal still on the table, the Rural Pharmacy …
Does the current pharmacy system reward low-value care?
Discount pharmacies are making a ‘mockery’ of the current remuneration arrangements, say leading pharmacists The Small Pharmacies Group (SPG) and Rural Pharmacy Network Australia (RPNA) have hit back at allegations …
‘Both sides should take a cold bath.’
Rural pharmacists want collaboration not turf wars, says Rural Pharmacy Network of Australia Rural Pharmacy Network of Australia (RPNA) has called for an end to the ‘turf war’, appealing to …