Two-for-one prescriptions for patients a ‘kick in the guts’ for Australian pharmacies, guild claims

Pharmacy Guild says Labor policy puts businesses at risk as it vows to tell customers who inquire about price rises or service cuts to ‘ask Albo’

The Pharmacy Guild has reacted with fury to changes offering 60-day medicine prescriptions, vowing to tell patients to “ask Albo” why prices rise or services are cut.

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has already lent support for the campaign, encouraging patients to ask pharmacists how “the proposed changes will impact you as a customer and them as a local small business”.

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