A generation chasm within community pharmacy needs to be bridged before generic substitutions take a greater hold in the sector, the head of one of the main generic manufacturers has warned.
Speaking at a conference on generic medicines in Sydney yesterday, Genepharm chief executive Dennis Bastas said only generational change was going to bring about a more widespread acceptance of generics by pharmacists.
According to Mr Bastas, Australian pharmacy was split between a bottom quarter of pharmacies substituting only 10 per cent of their dispensed drugs with generics and a top quarter substituting between 70 and 80 of prescriptions with generics.
"That is a big disparity," he said. "And, to be honest, that bottom 25 per cent is not going to change."
"We are...
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