Pharmacies will now enjoy a five-year extension of location rules that protect existing businesses from competition under $3.2bn agreement
The Pharmacy Guild has shelved plans to launch a major campaign against a Coalition plan to allow pharmacists to offer a $1 discount on prescription medicine, after the government tied it to a five-year extension of location rules that protect existing pharmacies.
The health minister, Sussan Ley, signed a deal with the guild to increase remuneration and funding to the community pharmacy sector and wholesale distributors by $3.2bn over five years.
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