The Senate Committee on Community Affairs has been urged to recommend that pharmacies be located within the precinct of health centres to improve provision of pharmaceutical services in rural and remote areas.
Rollo Manning, a Northern Territory pharmacy and public relations consultant, and well known critic of current community pharmacy models made the recommendation in his submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Community Affairs inquiry into the supply of health services to rural Australia.
In his submission, Mr Manning again questioned the current proprietary model.
“The practice of pharmacy – the supply, distribution and provision of information to the patient or community should be viewed as part of the primary health process,” he said.
“It is not and this is largely due to...
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