GPs and pharmacists are at each other’s throats over a proposal to effectively end doctors' monopoly on prescriptions.
Health Minister Mark Butler said Medicare was in the “worst shape it’s been in its 40-year history” but particularly general practice which is in a “truly parlous state”.
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