2 August 2017 - The Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation Review (the King Review) has been hijacked by a combination of ideology and economic theorising leading to conclusions that that would dismantle, if not destroy, the community pharmacy model.

Its flawed approach would force the closure of an estimated 1,700 community pharmacies with massive major losses of jobs, and an irreversible corporatisation and commoditisation of medicines-related care.

Such a radical prescription for community pharmacy is totally unwarranted. The evidence before the Review overwhelmingly confirmed the success of and high levels of public support for the community pharmacy model, which is the most fiscally sustainable part of the entire health system.

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