New pharmacy group comes out swinging over $5 prescription copayment

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New pharmacy group comes out swinging over $5 prescription copayment

Paulette
Crowley
Gemma Perry
Prescription Access Initiative organiser Gemma Perry

The newly-formed Prescription Access Initiative group is calling on the Government to scrap the prescription copayment, saying evidence proves it fuels medication nonadherence and patient harm. Paulette Crowley reports

KEY POINTS, About 45 pharmacists have grouped to pressure the Government to scrap the $5 prescription copayment. They say the charge, coupled with steep increas, BACK panel - grey