Australia Post has teamed up with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia to deliver medicines via a contactless pharmacy home delivery service.

The measures include:

• Continued dispensing arrangements for the ongoing supply PBS subsidised medicines without a prescription will be extended to 30 June 2020.
• A home delivery service for PBS and Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS) medicines is now in place.
• Ongoing work with pharmacists, GPs and the States and Territories to allow medicine substitution by the pharmacist in the event of a shortage.
• Restrictions on the quantity of medicines that can be purchased to prevent unnecessary medicine stockpiling.

These temporary ‘continued dispensing’arrangements allow people to obtain their usual medicines at PBS prices, even if they cannot get a new prescription from their doctor.

For more information about this new service, click on the link here.