If you have ever wondered why you can’t pick up your prescription medicines from your GP’s surgery or collect them from a supermarket, along with your grocery shopping, the answer is probabl... Read more
Lesley Russell writes: Across Australia around 5,700 community pharmacies are responsible for dispensing the majority of prescriptions subsidised under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PB... Read more
If you’re a bit hazy on how efficiently and cost-effectively pharmaceutical products are funded and distributed in Australia, you’re not alone. As health policy expert Dr Lesley Russell expl... Read more
Deborah Gleeson and Ruth Lopert write: Talks that were meant to finalise the Trans Pacific Partnership wound up in Hawaii late last week without reaching a final deal. Over the last five yea... Read more
Adam Stankevicius writes: The Australian National Audit Office’s report into the $15.4 billion remuneration scheme for pharmacy owners reveals a bewildering scale of administrative failure t... Read more
Loretta Marron OAM, CEO Friends of Medicine in Science writes: Following the recent NHMRC paper exposing homeopathic remedies as placebos, a pharmacy industry poll overwhelmingly condemned s... Read more
Important questions about the governance of the multi-billion dollar agreement between the Federal Government and Pharmacy Guild of Australia (representing pharmacy owners) are raised in the... Read more
Stephen Duckett, Health Program Director at the Grattan Institute, writes: The Commonwealth could save A$1.3 billion each year by reforming the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), accordin... Read more
Some extremely interesting conversations must have been occurring behind closed doors in pharmacy-land, in the wake of the disastrous deal between the Pharmacy Guild and Blackmores. Accordin... Read more
The theme dominating so many of our health reform discussions and decisions is that we need to spend more and do more, to improve the population’s health. That is no doubt true in many areas... Read more
