Business and Industry Insights
Calculators
A range of calculators and tools to ensure that your business is viable. Understand the impact of the 7CPA agreement, determine professional services revenue and costs, and discover new market opportunities.
PBS Remuneration
Details on the government's latest PBS remuneration prices.
Latest PBS Price Changes
The Guild provides information on remuneration and upcoming price changes and PBS Schedule variations to assist members to monitor and plan from a business perspective
- - EFC Summary of Changes - October 2023 | 20 Sep 2023
- - PBS Summary of Changes - October 2023 | 20 Sep 2023
- - PBS Price Changes - October 2023 | 20 Sep 2023
S100 Programmes
Details of alternative PBS remuneration for S100 medicines.
Includes S100 Highly Specialised Drugs Co-payment Program Portal for NSW pharmacies.
Reports
Download the latest reports from the Guild.
- Framework for Change
- Guild Digest
- Rental
- Script Volume
- State of Industry
Framework for Change
The Guild Framework for Change (formerly CP2025) enables the Guild to develop a vision to enable community pharmacies to have a viable, longer-term future as an integral part of the Australian health care system serving the needs of increasingly empowered health consumers.
Latest Framework for Change
- Framework for Change - Member Report | 05 Dec 2022
- Framework for Change - State Factsheets | 13 Jul 2022
- Framework for Change - Consumer Report | 13 Jul 2022
- Framework for Change - Member Survey Presentation | 24 Feb 2022
- CP2025 Framework for Change | 19 Nov 2018
Guild Digest
The Guild Digest presents a snapshot of pharmacy operations in Australia for the preceding financial year.
Latest Guild Digest
- Guild Digest 2022 - Full Report | 04 Nov 2022
- Guild Digest 2021 - Full Report | 11 Oct 2021
- Guild Digest 2020 - Full Report | 26 Nov 2020
- Guild Digest 2019 - Full Report | 23 Dec 2019
- Guild Digest 2018 - Full Report | 24 Aug 2018
Rental
The Pharmacy Rental Report is a guide to the commercial landscape currently facing community pharmacy in relation to leasing and landlord relationships
Latest Pharmacy Rental Report
- 2023 Pharmacy Rental Report | 28 Feb 2023
- 2022 Pharmacy Rental Report | 23 Mar 2022
- 2021 Pharmacy Rental Report | 08 Feb 2021
- 2020 Pharmacy Rental Report | 25 Feb 2020
- 2019 Pharmacy Rental Report | 04 Mar 2019
Script Volume
The Script Volume Monitoring Report measures PBS volume at an industry level, as published by the Department of Health on a monthly basis. The report shows trends in annual rolling volume for items dispensed by co-payment status
Latest Script Volume Monitoring Reports
- 7CPA Volume Monitoring Report - November 2022 | 24 Feb 2023
- 7CPA Volume Monitoring Report October 2022 | 03 Feb 2023
- 7CPA Volume Monitoring Report September 2022 | 21 Dec 2022
- 7CPA Volume Monitoring Report - August 2022 | 22 Nov 2022
- 7CPA Volume Monitoring Report - July 2022 | 19 Oct 2022
State of Industry
It presents information on trends in dispensary volumes and demographics, industry wide revenue, employment, pharmacy clinical services, special dispensing circumstances and a number of business indicators.
Latest State of the Industry Reports
- State of the Industry - Q2 2023 | 15 Sep 2023
- State of the Industry - Q1 2023 | 31 May 2023
- State of the Industry - Q4 2022 | 11 Apr 2023
- State of the Industry - Q3 2022 | 10 Jan 2023
- State of the Industry - Q2 2022 | 22 Aug 2022
Workforce Capability Project
The Guild is undertaking a Workforce Capability Project.
It seeks to understand the community pharmacy workforce including factors contributing to workforce supply and demand and what will drive change and improvement to ensure pharmacy can attract and maintain the right people with the right skills.
Counting on Community Pharmacies
Data Driven Insights 2022
The changing role of Australian community pharmacies on the healthcare frontline.
Community pharmacies are a vital pillar of our national healthcare system and their role has taken on a new meaning since the pandemic swept across the nation.
This report draws on data from Westpac and The Pharmacy Guild of Australia to identify some of the key changes in consumer behaviour over the past three years.
The report shows how the pandemic has impacted consumer spending habits in community pharmacies. And, with the help of experts, it explores which consumer behaviours are likely to continue into the future.
Latest News
Guild Alert
27 June 2023
Last year, as part of our ongoing Workforce Capability Project, we surveyed Australian pharmacies on actual remuneration rates being...
Infographics
Regularly updated vital facts about community pharmacy to download and share.
Become a member
As a member of the Guild, you not only gain access to important benefits and services from the industry experts, you’re also helping to maintain the future of community pharmacy in Australia.