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Two-for-one prescriptions for patients a ‘kick in the guts’ for Australian pharmacies, guild claims

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Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading. The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has already lent support for the campaign, encouraging patients to ask pharmacists how “the proposed changes will impact you as a customer and them as a local small business”.

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Pharmacy Guild accused in Senate of using patient contact details to protest Labor dispensing changes

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

Meanwhile, the Australian Medical Association has labelled the Pharmacy Guild’s opposition to the new rules a “sick joke”. Sign up for Guardian Australia’s free morning and afternoon email newsletters for your daily news roundup Continue reading.

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

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

We look at how the claims of potentially 20,000 job losses, medicine shortages and billion-dollar revenue falls stack up Follow our Australia news live blog for the latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has painted a “catastrophic” picture in which 20,000 jobs will (..)

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Like Medicare, the PBS urgently needs overhauling – for all our sakes | Trent Zimmerman

The Guardian - Pharmaceutical Industry

It would be a mistake for Australia to narrow its health reform agenda to ignore access to new medicines The new year has brought with it an increased focus on Medicare reform to ensure it remains fit for purpose.

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