Pharmacy Daily | Pharmacists lobby on s100

A group of pharmacists from the NT and WA were in Canberra this week to meet with officials and politicians advocating for fairer remuneration for the dispensing of chronic disease scripts under the Remote Area Aboriginal Health Services Program. The RAAHS is a special supply arrangement administered under Section 100 of the National Health Act, allowing patients to receive medicines from a community pharmacy under the PBS without the need for a script and without cost to the patient. The pharmacists were aiming to resolve issues around the regulatory and remuneration arrangements “which have not kept pace with current best practice in terms of quality use of medicines for these patients who often have multiple chronic diseases”. They were advocating changes to the program so the remuneration for PBS medicines dispensed under the scheme is consistent with normal remuneration for other patients in any other community.

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