The Pharmacy Guild of Australia has painted a “catastrophic” picture in which 20,000 jobs will be lost and 650 pharmacies will close as they suffer a multibillion-dollar hit from filling fewer scripts and having fewer people wander in to buy anti-snoring devices.
The guild’s claims are outlined in a pair of reports it released this week – a technical report by Tulipwood Advisory and the Relational Insights Data Lab at Griffith University and a “companion report” by an economist and columnist at the Australian newspaper, Henry Ergas.
