24/04/2023
“You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone”.
When we had Anthony Albanese talking to pharmacists on a webinar and telling us these exact words, we didn’t expect that we’d have to face the biggest crisis in Pharmacy just a year and a half later.
The Federal Government wants to introduce Double Dispensing (where you’d get two months of medication at once) on 1 July this year.
At the moment there are medication shortages all over the place. Despite our best efforts, we are currently out of ALL strengths of Coumadin- a life-saving medication used to prevent stroke and heart attacks, along with hundreds of others. And don’t get me started on Ozempic!
Giving one person double (if we can even get it) will mean someone else will miss out. This is a bad policy, and needs to be stopped or your health, and that of your loved ones, may suffer.
On top of this, there would be a severe cut to every pharmacy’s funding. We have looked at this and cannot see how we could keep all of our staff. So which of our amazing team won’t have a job?
This is not a drill. Your family’s access to medication is at stake.
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Sharon Claydon MP Sonia Hornery MP
