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NPSA Statement on free flu vaccines to community pharmacy

3 June 2022 NPSA is the peak body representing the CSO medicine wholesalers with a dedicated health logistics network supplying all PBS medicines into more than 5,500 pharmacies across Australia. Our members are proud of our service reliably distributing more than 2 million medicines and pharmacy products each day, however the NPSA network … [Read more...]

NPSA welcomes Mark Butler as new Health Minister

MEDIA RELEASE 31 May 2022  Peak industry body calls on new government to maintain investment in the medicines supply chain to meet future public health challenges. [Sydney, Australia] The National Pharmaceutical Services Association (NPSA) today welcomed the appointment of The Hon Mark Butler MP as Minister for Health and Aged Care and said … [Read more...]

NPSA Chair Richard Vincent at the BioPharmaDispatch Conference 2022

“The supply chain simply cannot manage the cost, complexity or demands of the proposed full track and trace model. It’s just not clear to me, or anyone I suspect, exactly what the problem the model is trying to solve. Any issues that relate ot a relatively small number of medicines does not require a complex unworkable solution that will have … [Read more...]

Presentation at APP 2022 – The State of the Industry

As a guest panelist NPSA Chair Richard Vincent details the comprehensive decade of member company investment in health infrastructure and sets out the avoidable threats to supply chain and pharmacy efficiency on a range of fronts including: vaccine contracts, the National Medicines Traceability Framework, and unintended consequences of … [Read more...]