Guild: Won’t rest on PD
February 25, 2014
The Pharmacy Guild of Australia
(PGA) said it “will not be resting”
on the issue of price disclosure.
In an update to members on
its price disclosure campaign,
PGA national president George
Tambassis said the Guild was
continuing to ask the government
to offset the impact of the
Simplified Price Disclosure regime,
due to start on 01 Oct.
Tambassis said while Minister for
Health Peter Dutton had said that
he was sympathetic to pharmacy,
he did not have the money to meet
the Guild’s request.
“In response, I have personally
made clear to him that the Guild
will not relent until this issue is
satisfactorily addressed.”
Tambassis said that in the last
three months, the Guild had been
busy pushing pharmacies’ cause,
including writing to every coalition
member and senator explaining the
impact of the changes, presenting
a number of options to Minister
Dutton and organising a grassroots
network of pharmacy owners to
meet Coalition MPs around the
country.
The Guild had also organised the
tabling of a 1.1m signature petition
which it was confident would occur
during the next Parliamentary
sitting, Tambassis said.
He called on members to tell
local Federal MPs about price
disclosure’s impact.
“The Guild will not be resting until
this issue is satisfactorily addressed.
“In such a challenging
environment I cannot guarantee
success.
“However I can personally assure
you that everyone at the Guild
is working day and night doing
everything we possibly can to
represent our members’ interests.”
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