National Competition Policy Review of Pharmacy
Productivity Commission submission
The Productivity Commission Submission to the National Competition Policy Review of Pharmacy was released on 4 November 1999. This published version replaces an earlier version of the submission presented to the review in August and previously available from this website. In this published version, the treatment of price advertising in the pharmacy sector has been modified in the light of input from the Review and other interested parties. Also see:
CONTENTS
Preliminaries
Cover, Copyright, Foreword, Contents, Overview
1 Introduction
2 The Community Pharmacy Sector
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Functions
2.3 Structural characteristics
2.4 Mail-order pharmacy
3 Current Regulatory Arrangements
3.1 State and Territory regulations
3.2 Commonwealth regulations
4 Benefits and Costs of the Regulations
4.1 Licensing requirements
4.2 Ownership restrictions
4.3 Scheduling restrictions
4.4 Advertising of drug prices
4.5 Commonwealth regulations associated with the PBS
4.6 Concluding remarks
5 Some Alternative Approaches
5.1 Modest reforms
5.2 A pro-competitive reform package
5.3 Adjustment and social issues
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