Community pharmacies proudly serve the community and always strive for the best outcome for our patients, but 60-day dispensing means 665 pharmacies are at risk of closure, and 20,818 jobs at risk. This is not scaremongering, it is a heartbreaking reality.

We’ve performed 10 million covid vaccinations, we’re proud of providing cheaper medicines and will continue to advocate for $19 payments, but we are concerned for communities that will end up without a local pharmacy, particularly in rural Australia.

60-day dispensing impacts our most vulnerable—the elderly, aged care residents, children, and those in regional areas—who rely heavily on their local community pharmacies, and they stand to suffer the most.