THE Labor Party has said it will "consider the role of pharmacists and community pharmacies in primary health care reform" enabling them to "work to their full scope of practice, without fragmenting care or duplicating services".
Writing in a letter to Guild National President George Tambassis, Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten and Shadow Minister for Health and Medicare Catherine King expressed the party's determination to follow through on their National Platform which recognises that "the National Medicines Policy and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme are underpinned by the community pharmacy network and pharmacists, who are medicines experts".
They also said a Labor Government would "honour the 6CPA and lead early and inclusive negotiations towards the next agreement."
Other matters covered included affordability of medicines, attracting and retaining pharmacists and multidisciplinary collaboration.
King will address the APP2019 around these matters this morning.
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