Urban‒rural disparity in access to free scripts

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Urban‒rural disparity in access to free scripts

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Pharmacy Today

Jonathan Chilton-Towle
Discount pharmacies NZ
Discount pharmacies across New Zealand

DHBs granting contracts to pharmacies that offer free prescriptions highlights that this improves access to medicine, often for high-need communities. Reporter Jonathan Chilton-Towle checked the facts

MOST DISCOUNT PHARMACIES are located in high-deprivation areas, but many high-deprivation areas, especially rural, still lack access to free prescript