'Supermarket Medicine' Clinics A Threat To Quality And Safety In Health Care, Australia

AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that a partnership between a pharmacy chain and nurse practitioners to open 150 walk-in clinics poses a serious threat to the quality and safety of health care in Australia. It is reported that the Perth-based Revive nurse clinics and the Pharmacy Alliance group plan to open more than 150 clinics nationally by 2012.