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Pay pharmacists to improve our health, not just supply medicines

  • Written by John Jackson, Researcher, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Monash University
Pay pharmacists to improve our health, not just supply medicinesPharmacists receive no financial incentive to counsel patients about how to take their medicines. That needs to change.from www.shutterstock.com

When you have a medicine dispensed at your local pharmacy under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS), two things happen. The federal government determines how much the pharmacy receives for dispensing...

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