Australian Medical
Association president Associate
Professor Dr Brian Owler has said
when it comes to supermarkets
selling prescription medicines, what
was best in terms of the patient
should be looked at.
“And if the best thing is for
the patient being able to access
medicines at a cheaper rate, but
still have access to a pharmacist
that has the sort of training
and expertise to provide the
information to the person that’s
collecting their script and looking
for advice on certain medications,
then that’s something that I think
needs to be considered.”
Owler said the question needed
to be asked why funding from
the Sixth Community Pharmacy
Agreement was going to
pharmacies to distribute medicine
when “we have a lot of other
alternative ways of distributing it?”
The Agreement needed to be
considered in context with the
other savings measures occurring in
health, he said.The above article was sent to subscribers in Pharmacy Daily's issue from 11 Sep 14 To see the full newsletter, see the embedded issue below or CLICK HERE to download Pharmacy Daily from 11 Sep 14
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