Pharmacy…working on the margins

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Pharmacy…working on the margins

Aaron van Delden and Ruth Brown

Anna Mickell
Declaration of interest: Anna Mickell is a director of The Health Media, publishers of New Zealand Doctor and Pharmacy Today

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

The cost and risk of managing the inventory and distribution of 45 million-plus funded prescription items per year were passed from DHBs to diversifie