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.

7CPA Calculator

7CPA Calculator

Calculate your forecasted remuneration under the 7CPA agreement based on prescriptions and professional services fulfilled.

Professional Services Viability

Professional Services Viability

Determine your service fees based on your costs, ideal profit margins, and competitive environment.

Stock Security Price Changes Calculator

Stock Security Price Changes Calculator

Calculate the impact of ex-manufacturer price changes to low-cost PBS medicines.

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

S100 Programmes

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

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Guild Digest

The Guild Digest presents a snapshot of pharmacy operations in Australia for the preceding financial year.

Latest Guild Digest

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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

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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

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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

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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.

Learn more

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.

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Latest News

Share your health experience and you could win

Forefront

13 September 2023

The Australian Patients Association is wanting to hear from you about your healthcare experiences to create an ‘Australian Healthcare Index.’

Bleak outlook for pharmacies – Comm Bank

Media Release

17 August 2023

A new report by the Commonwealth Bank and the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has revealed a bleak outlook from...

Regional Pharmacy Transition Allowance - update

Guild Alert

03 August 2023

Last week, the Minister for Health and Aged Care announced an additional payment for some pharmacies in regional, rural and remote areas....

This survey really pays off

Forefront

12 July 2023

The deadline is approaching for pharmacy owners to take part in the 2023/24 financial year Remuneration Survey.

Aged care survey

Guild Alert

10 July 2023

A reminder to complete the Guild member survey on Aged Care.

Let’s talk about your salaries

Media Release

03 July 2023

The Pharmacy Guild of Australia is wanting to hear from you as it takes expressions of interest from members of...

Participate in the Workforce Capability Project

Guild Alert

27 June 2023

Last year, as part of our ongoing Workforce Capability Project, we surveyed Australian pharmacies on actual remuneration rates being...

20,000 pharmacy jobs to go under Government’s medicine policy & free services to end

Media Release

19 June 2023

As many as 20,000 jobs will be lost, 665 pharmacies will close and Australia’s most vulnerable patients will suffer under...

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