Pharmacy Daily | The Price Disclosure campaign

As pharmacists begin to gather on the Gold Coast for the Australian Pharmacy Professional (APP) conference, the Guild wants all to know that strong advocacy work is continuing in relation to the impact of price disclosure on community pharmacies. In an extremely difficult budgetary climate for the Federal Government, the Guild is continuing to ask the Government to offset the impact in 2014-15 of the pre-election changes to the price disclosure regime. We are asking for its impact on pharmacies in the last year of the Community Pharmacy Agreement to be offset, because these changes to price disclosure moved the goalposts and breached our Agreement. In the last three months, we have continued to prosecute pharmacies’ case strongly through: • Writing to every Coalition Member and Senator explaining the impact of the changes to price disclosure and seeking their support in securing the future viability of the pharmacies in their electorates. • Making strong submissions to the Commission of Audit and the Pre- Budget process. • Presenting a number of options to Minister Dutton which would ameliorate the impact of price disclosure on pharmacies in 2014-15. • Producing a detailed economic analysis of the impact of price disclosure which has been presented to Minister Dutton and the Prime Minister’s and Treasurer’s offices. • Organising for the tabling of the record 1.2 million signature petition which occurred on 26 February. The Guild will not rest until this issue is satisfactorily addressed.

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