Pharmacy... working on the margins

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Pharmacy... working on the margins

Anna Mickell

Anna Mickell

Margins measuring ruler

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