THE Small Pharmacies Group (SPG) has raised some challenges in a letter addressed to the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia around the issues of general practice pharmacists interloping between the community pharmacist and GPs and between pharmacists and their patients with whom they consult.
The model is described as a duplication, especially in areas of community pharmacy rapport-building and funded clinical services such as medicine reviews.
The SPG represents owners of around 300 small pharmacies with less than $1.5 million turnover and under 35,000 scripts annually.
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