This ensures our community’s health needs come first. We choose the products we stock.

It is true that Independent community pharmacies today face many challenges.

The most notable of these is survival due to the proliferation of chain pharmacies.

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This is not just confined to Australia.  The National Community Pharmacists Association in the USA has recently launched a campaign to encourage people to to use these pharmacies where possible to ensure that they remain viable enough to exist into the future.

There are many reasons why people choose independent pharmacies that are locally owned and operated over chain pharmacies.

In these pharmacies patients are a name, even family – not a number.

Pharmacist owners and staff in those pharmacies are usually members of the wider local community.

This ensures money is returned to the local community not to owners and shareholders who live in Sydney, for example, or interstate.

Owners who rarely set foot in the businesses they own.

Contrary to popular belief, locally owned, independent pharmacies are often price competitive (ask Gavin about his price matching policy)  and provide customer service to often overlooked areas.

We deliver to Salt Ash, Williamtown, Campvale and Fern Bay in addition to all of Medowie on a daily basis.

Small business community pharmacies provide niche services, often unavailable elsewhere, to meet patient health needs (eg. same-day home delivery and a range of home health care equipment for sale and hire)

Independent pharmacies tend to have a higher staff-to-customer ratio.

This is certainly true of our pharmacy, which has four to five dispensary staff most days, including two and often three pharmacists.

Our locally owned, independent pharmacy has over the years supported many local community groups and initiatives.  

Independent pharmacies try to support often overlooked, grass roots community teams.

By supporting our pharmacy this ensures we will be here when you need us most … seven days per week.