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William Ton

UNBELIEVABLE: Pharmacy jobs at risk with dispensing change report | History Defined

Analysis shows a move to let people to buy 60 days' worth of medicine would cause pharmacy closures. (Flavio Brancaleone/AAP PHOTOS) (AAP)

More than 600 pharmacies and 20,000 jobs might be at risk if the federal government follows through with plans to change rules around medicine dispensing.

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia is warning of job losses following the release of an independent report analysing the government's plan to allow up to six million people to buy two months' worth of subsidised medicines with a single prescription.

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