Pharmacy Daily | AMA on supermarkets

Australian Medical Association president Associate Professor Dr Brian Owler has said when it comes to supermarkets selling prescription medicines, what was best in terms of the patient should be looked at. “And if the best thing is for the patient being able to access medicines at a cheaper rate, but still have access to a pharmacist that has the sort of training and expertise to provide the information to the person that’s collecting their script and looking for advice on certain medications, then that’s something that I think needs to be considered.” Owler said the question needed to be asked why funding from the Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement was going to pharmacies to distribute medicine when “we have a lot of other alternative ways of distributing it?” The Agreement needed to be considered in context with the other savings measures occurring in health, he said.

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