Pharmacists push for more home medication checks | 7NEWS

2 hours ago The News Room

Nearly two million Australians regularly take five or more medicines, with most being aged 75 and over. Medicine mix-ups send around 400,000 Australians to emergency rooms annually, prompting pharmacists to call for increased Medicare-funded home medication reviews. Pharmacists are currently capped at 30 government-funded home medicine reviews per month and want this limit raised to prevent dangerous drug interactions and hospitalisations.

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