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Andrew Bartlett, Associate Lecturer Pharmacy Practice, University of Sydney

Here's what new 60-day prescriptions mean for you and your hip pocket

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From today, there are significant changes to how some common medicines are prescribed and dispensed in Australia. This means you could walk away from the pharmacy with 60-days’ worth of your usual medicine from a single prescription.

Until now, most long-term medicines were only available for 30 days at a time. So the price of these medicines for some patients may effectively halve.

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