Pharmacy…working on the margins

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Pharmacy…working on the margins

Aaron van Delden and Ruth Brown

Pharmacy shelves
The old ways for pharmacy are under threat

Community pharmacy is in the process of deciding whether to access a new services agreement on offer from DHBs. Pharmacy sector commentator Anna Mickell argues the new agreement does not go far enough to relieve pharmacy’s reliance on non-pharmacy products and services to stay viable

In 2013, I heard a Pharmac representative say, in a sector consultation meeting, that dispensing was a “marginal cost” in community pharmacy and, as s