THE Guild's Tasmania branch has again stressed that patients and community pharmacies will be worse off under the 60-day dispensing changes coming in tomorrow's Budget.
President Helen O'Byrne says the move will worsen medicine shortages and the loss in revenue will lead to pharmacies being forced to reduce trading hours or even close.
She said doubling the number of medicines patients can receive at a time makes no sense, when in many cases no medicines are available at all, with added fear of the future with staff job losses.
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