Chemotherapy

November 19, 2013

Last week in Federal Parliament, the Minister for Health Peter Dutton announced that the Coalition will be ensuring that the chemotherapy funding issue is addressed so that services to cancer patients are not put at risk. The interim $60 per infusion funding provided by the previous Government to address the chemotherapy shortfall runs out on 31 December. It is imperative that the funding to address the chemotherapy shortfall is not sourced from the Community Pharmacy Agreement. This is not part of the current Agreement and the genesis of the shortfall stems from a Budget measure in 2008, entirely separate from the Agreement. It would be inappropriate and unacceptable to ask Australia’s 5,200 community pharmacies to foot the chemotherapy bill. We have made this position clear to Minister Dutton and the Prime Minister’s office. We will continue to reiterate it strongly as the Government formalises the position foreshadowed by the Minister.

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Chemotherapy

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