The Pharmacy Guild has abandoned its campaign against the rollout of 60 day prescriptions. The changes to almost 100 medications come into effect from September 1st - allowing patients to access twice as many doses.
Aged in their eighties and nineties, Sydney couple Beena Banerjee and husband Amal, know the potential complications of ageing."Medication, is a lot. Lot, lot lot. So my husband got lot, I got lot, and Going to the chemist is hard for us, hard for me, he can't move.""It help me a lot, in lots of ways, it will save money, I don't have to go to the chemist every month."
"It's hard to get on the day appointments, it's hard to get appointments with GPs in South Australia at the moment, so this is going to be really useful that we're not wasting appointments on routine scripts that we can use for other care for our patients." ... but four months later, the campaign has been shelved after negotations on a new pharmacy agreement were brought forward by the government.
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