Pharmacy Daily | Ley to open ASMI conference

THE Australian Self Medication Industry (ASMI) has confirmed that Health minister Sussan Ley will present at the organisation’s upcoming conference taking place on 27 Oct in Sydney. ASMI said it was keen to hear from the newly reappointed minister on “progress of regulatory reforms impacting the consumer healthcare sector” - and in particular consumer communication of Pharmacist-Only (S3) medicines. “Minister Ley has been an advocate of self-care,” ASMI said, with other items on the agenda including an overhaul of the scheduling framework and provisions for market exclusivity/ data protection for OTC and complementary medicines in order to incentivise innovation. The conference will also feature sessions on “Leveraging Pharmacy to enable the health consumer” and “Chinese Demand and Australian Consumer Healthcare Products”.

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