Pharmacies Warn of Looming Aged-Care Medicines Crisis

Pharmacies Warn of Looming Aged-Care Medicines Crisis
Used blister packets that contained medicines, tablets and pills in a picture illustration taken on June 30, 2018. Russell Boyce/Illustration/Reuters
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Aged-care residents could see the cost of their medicines go up if planned dispensing changes go ahead as the pharmacy guild urges the federal government to pause the policy.

Under changes due to come into effect from September 1, up to six million people will be able to buy two months’ worth of subsidised medicines with a single prescription rather than just a one-month supply.