The Pharmacy Guild has abandoned its campaign against 60-day prescription dispensing after the Albanese government agreed to negotiations to minimise the policy's impact on the viability of community pharmacies.
Labor's cheaper medicines scheme will allow patients to buy a two months' supply of medication rather than 30 days worth when they collect their script.
On Friday the government committed to negotiations over bringing forward the eighth community pharmacy agreement commencing March 1, prompting the guild to suspend its campaign. “All pharmacists want cheaper medicines but we need to do it in a way that doesn’t affect the services that Australians have come to rely on," he said.
"And with that commitment of that early commencement of the community pharmacy agreement in March, we have pressed pause on that public information campaign, so we can work in good faith with the government and that the government can work in good faith with us towards a mutually beneficial goal."
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