Location rule review
August 3, 2015
Health minister Sussan Ley
says the forthcoming review of
pharmacy location rules, which will
formally kick off next month (PD
Fri) should “put the matter to bed
once and for all”.
Speaking to PD at the PSA15
conference, Ley said she currently
receives about 30 requests each
month to use her discretion in
connection with location rules, “so
some fine tuning may be required”.
But she said the Guild had been
supportive of the review, and
denied that it was a foregone
conclusion that it would result in
pharmacies within supermarkets.
“I have said, and the Prime
Minister has said, we don’t
want to see any pharmacy in
supermarkets,” she reiterated.
Earlier during her PSA15
speech Ley stressed the key
role pharmacies play in many
communities, where in some cases
they have replaced post offices as
“the cornerstone...adding to the
social fabric as well as individual
health and wellbeing”.
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