budget
Make medicines more affordable: Guild
Federal Treasurer, Jim Chalmers, is facing renewed calls to cut the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) general co-payment for the second time in next month’s Budget Having successfully secured a $12.50 …
What does the budget mean for you?
What does the recent Federal Budget mean for community pharmacy? Marcus Evitt of Peak Strategies outlines the key points Federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down, on October 25, Labor’s 2022-2023 …
The week in review
It was all about the Budget this week as historic changes passed on co-pay reductions, while the pharmacists’ union slammed Chemist Warehouse’s “super profit” Budget bites When the national budget …
$74m for monkeypox response: Government
Budget announces prioritised access through joint investment with states and territories The Federal Government has committed almost $74 million to build up its monkeypox response, with a new vaccine being …
Federal Budget: the reaction
Co-pay cut welcomed, but another MBS snub for pharmacy: what did stakeholders make of this week’s federal budget? Key health care stakeholders have expressed mixed feelings about the October Federal …
Co-pay cut confirmed
Federal Budget delivers on government’s promised PBS co-pay reduction and promises to boost student numbers in healthcare The Albanese government has delivered on its promised commitment to reduce the PBS …
Hospital pharmacists urge focus on workforce strategy
Workforce strategy, funding boost welcomed amid ‘pharmacist burnout and dissatisfaction’ The SHPA has welcomed the ACT 2022-23 Budget, handed down this week by Chief Minister and Treasurer Andrew Barr, but …
‘The stress, burnout and fatigue on the ground is palpable.’
Once-off cash payments just the ‘first step’: More hospital pharmacists needed to support bed numbers as some states face chronic understaffing, burnout Hospital pharmacists have received some good news in …
Cash ‘thank you’ payment misses mark
Leader calls out lack of recognition for pharmacists in budget The PSA says the 2022-23 NSW Budget, released on Tuesday, has missed the opportunity to recognise pharmacists for being on …
Cuts to NPS funding ‘short sighted’
“I am sad and angry”: leading clinical pharmacist joins criticism of Budget cuts to the National Prescribing Service Leading clinical pharmacist Debbie Rigby has said she is “disappointed, saddened and …
An opportunity squandered
The Federal Government has failed to adequately address medicines affordability in the Budget, Guild says, as small business wins a number of concessions The Pharmacy Guild of Australia says the …
Call for pharmacist MBS pay for vaccines
Failure to fairly remunerate pharmacists may lead to a mass exodus, warns pharmacy group in calling on the Federal Government for MBS payments nearing $40 per vax The workforce is …