Dr Michael Tatchell speaks to employees of Symbion to illustrate the lengths to which the wholesalers go to ensure medicines make it to pharmacies – and to patients – within 24 hours of the pharmacy order’s cut off time. To read the article  click here Michael Tatchell AJP article June 2013.pdf.  Published in The Australian Journal of … [Read more...]

In the third instalment of his series about the Community Service Obligation (CSO), Dr Michael Tatchell asks the question—what would be the consequences for patient health if there were no CSO in place? To read the article click here Michael Tatchell AJP article May 2013.pdf The Australian Journal of Pharmacy vol.96 May 2013 … [Read more...]

The Community Service Obligation and the wholesalers which support it ensured pharmacies affected by the recent Queensland floods were able to keep serving their patients depsite entire towns being cut off. Read the Australian Journal of Pharmacy article from Dr Michael Tatchell here The Australian Journal of Pharmacy vol.95 April 2013 … [Read more...]

The Community Service Obligation (CSO) commenced on 1 July 2006 as part of the Fourth Community Pharmacy Agreement. Its genesis, though, can be traced back to the Review of Pharmaceutical Wholesaling undertaken in 2001/02, the report of which was released in September 2002. In a series of short articles for the Australian Journal of Pharmacy, Dr … [Read more...]