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'Patients miss out': calls for reform to pharmacies

Australian pharmacies should be subjected to a host of reforms, a report suggests, including removing restrictions on where they can be built to improve access.

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Unfair fees and low competition: why the pharmacy sector needs a shake up

The average Australian visits a community pharmacy 18 times a year – more than any other health service.

The Conversation

Push to free up GPs with more pharmacist prescriptions

Letting pharmacists write medication scripts could save $1 billion in health costs and free up 10 million GP visits a year, a report has found.

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A new Community Pharmacy Agreement starts next month. Here’s what you need to know

The Albanese government and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia have this week signed the eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement, which will come into effect on July 1.

The Conversation

Will hundreds of Australian pharmacies close over dispensing changes or is it just a scare campaign?

We look at how the claims of potentially 20,000 job losses, medicine shortages and billion-dollar revenue falls stack up

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The Pharmacy Guild of Australia says the government's 60-day script policy will worsen medicine shortages. What does the data say?

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia says 400 drugs are on the "critical" shortage list and 20 per cent of those would be out of stock due to the government's new 60-day script policy. But the data tells a different story.

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‘Misleading’ pharmacy signs prompt boycott call over prescription changes

A Priceline pharmacy sign about an upcoming policy change to prescriptions has been branded as a "scare campaign".

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Pharmacy Guild unleashes robocalls, text messages and posters opposing PBS changes

Patients say they are distressed and disappointed after receiving calls warning of prescription medicine shortages "due to the Albanese Labor government".

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Here's why pharmacists are angry at script changes – and why the government is making them anyway

Australians will soon be able to fill two months’ supply of medicines at their community pharmacy, rather than one, for 325 common medicines. This change is expected to halve the cost of prescriptions for six million Australians.

The Conversation

Ulcerative colitis diagnosis sends Sammie Brown, 23, on mission to make poo less taboo

Sammie Brown, 23, is a self-proclaimed "poo lady" living with a chronic disease that she can't always afford to treat. She's already helped to lower the cost of subsidised medicines, but she hopes her story can be about more than saving money.

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