REGIONAL panel hearings in the ongoing Queensland Parliamentary Inquiry into the establishment of a pharmacy council and transfer of pharmacy ownership have commenced, with the first taking place in Toowoomba on Fri.
Speakers included Adnan Guhar and Andrew Whittaker from Just Pharmacy Toowoomba; Dr Stephen Duckett from the Grattan Institute who testified by phone; Owen Pharmacy Group proprietor Chris Owen; and Lucy Walker from Terry White Chemmart Goondiwindi, the 2017 Pharmacy of the Year.
Today the hearings move to Townsville, with testimony from Allan Milostic of LiveLife Pharmacy Group Airlie Beach; Konrad Kangru from the Rural Doctors Association of Queensland; Catherine Whalan and Paul Willis of Cate's Chemist; and pharmacist Matthew Brosnan.
And tomorrow the committee will sit in Cairns at the Pullman Reef Hotel from 9am-11.30am, with participants including Pharmacy Board of Australia chair William Kelly taking part by phone; Queensland Pharmacy Guild branch president Trent Twomey; and Georgina Twomey from Alive Pharmacy Warehouse Innisfail.
The committee is due to hand down its report by 30 Sep.
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