Needs a bit more investigation!!!

It doesnt sound right to me.

Free? That smells like corruption to me.....

I’m not sure, things are certainly different in Australia😘

My pharmacy requests one occasionally for the Dr.to take the time to check what he is prescribing and check if some of them are still necessary or simply need changes. However check the list before you give it to the pharmacist. My GP didn't check his computer properly and missed vital medications off the list. What's more they were basically a life saving medication. Not long before he had listed them as put in webster pack. The new list was for a hospital. Their staff and pharmacy staff refused to ring my Dr. or normal pharmacy for verification and I had to fight to get it corrected. You do not skip Epilepsy medication without risking your life

I have family in Canada and their government truly takes care of them.😊

Not sure whether it's a good or bad thing.

I don't know the Canadian system at all so 🤷 I can keep my mouth closed and have people think I am ignoring them than to open it and prove that I am an ignorant xenophobic to another country and culture but I do know that our currencies are set at a different rate

It seems to me a good service.

Sounds like a cash cow to me. Sounds like something a socialist government would introduce. They always know how to spend and waste tax payer money.

no idea about it.

Sort of, yes, that is trying to push onto people through the drug companies. I don't trust gov. or drug companies, either.

Once or twice every year I know our pharmacist checks their customers to see that their current medicine list is "fit for purpose", i.e. they are not still taking medicines for which they have scripts but which may have been changed for higher or lower dosage or newer medicines. This is done through various Government Departments and customers are not charged for this service.

Sounds like 1 for me and 2 for you

Agree with Romac Public service employees are clock watchers & they can be bribed No disclosure on spend / costs / etc Public Sector just play with numbers

All government programmes, be they in Australia, Canada, the US, UK or anywhere else become corrupted. For example: Why can a Private Enterprise Hospital Group, such as Clavary in Australia build a State of the Art Hospital, which has More Beds, the very latest in medical eqipment for under $AU500 million in South Australia at the same time the South Australian Government builds it's new hospital, aka the Royal Adelaide Hospital whuich had an initial price tag of $AU1,8 billion, then more than 3 times the cost of the New Calvary Adelaide Hospital, but which exploded to a whopping $AU2.3 billion and then we were told that we would have to pay $AU1 million per day for another 29 years before that,by then obsolete, new Royal Adelaide Hospital would actually become the property of South Australia. Total cost? That, ladies and gentlemenr is close to a mere,but eye-watering, $AU13 billion. The Most Expensive Building in the World. A hospital which some in the Medical Professions, and surely they would know, say is Not Fit for Purpose. Someone, somewhere, has made a fortune bigger than the entire wealth of some countries. People will always find ways to get around government programmes and they will get away with it because, basically, the Public Servants, Civil Servants, Public Employees and their political masters/mistresses have neither the time nor the interest if stopping any of it.Edited 03-Mar-24 15:41pm

Sounds not good but you do need money to live and pay rent and bills

sounds a bit dodgy to me

I don't know if this is corruption or not . My hubby and I take multiple medications and the pharmacist came to our home to go through our medications, vitamins etc to make sure they didn't react to each other. I think it is a service provided by our local pharmacy

that seems good

More government over reach and waste of taxpayers' money.

was not aware of this

Hard to say, as long as it benefits those that need it most, it can't be too bad.

Well I think all governments pay some thing to doctors, GP's and chemists. I wouldn't know really how or how much they get here in Australia. No wonder the governments have no money for other important things. We are very grateful for the public hospital as they did operate on my husband about 4 years ago and saved his life. The government would have paid for it all even though he had gone through hell to get there and the operation didn't need to be as huge if the doctors had said yes it is a sarcoma sooner than when it was diagnosed. Never mind he's in a good place now and on the other side of that trauma.

about once a year the pharmacist came to my mother who was in her 90's to check if she new how to use her medication correctly do not know if the government pay for this service would assume it is a good thing for elderly people living independently , I was her carer for the last six years of her life, I did not look after the medication she was very independent , passed away at 99, she would not have a webster pack I wonder if this is available in Canada as it is a great tool for people who take a few medications particularly if they are at different times of the day. The customer pays for this not the government, people in aged care have to use them.

Could be

Not sure how this works in Canada, but I think here in NZ we have a right to see the breakdown of where the money goes, I do know that a lot of doctors get a kick back from pushing meds on to people.

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Thats a lot of money wasted

this is crazy that all i have to say.

Without a doubt.

No idead, sounds like a tangled web ... with everything being recorded on health sites surely things should get flagged in medications might clash ie r are not compatible with those already being taken.

If some one can't figure out their own medications, then they are extremely disabled or sick, their family would be in control of it. Checking it from big pharms just keeps the debt cyling. it's probably just to make more GDP.

Peg yes there it is the way they do things far as I am concerned they push even if the drugs can do harm ask them do they really care ,Greed is the only words they respond to.The more they sale the fatter their pockets become

No muchy more likely Government Ineptitude. They also probably do not keep the figures you are talking about as all they are interested in is the overall cost of the program and it is what they have directed the Bureaucrats to follow. Though if people are honest with them and declare all the Meds that they are taking it would be very useful in picking up different meds that adversely impact on any of the others and stop the massive waste of meds that occur in most of the developed world.

hmmm it's an interesting concept

Why should pharmacies have to do the work without getting paid? $75 per call seems to me to be a reasonable fee for work done. Corruption, of course, is always possible, but is unlikely in this case.Edited 03-Mar-24 10:50am

hi Pamela G....Edited 03-Mar-24 10:29am

IDK

Sounds too open for roughting the systems

I’m sure the pharmacist wouldn’t work for free.

I don't know.

Hope this doesn't happen here in Australia. The big Pharma companies would have an even greater field day.

we don't want this in Australia we have enough government problems We don't want this in Australia we have enough government problems!

yes some very strange ideas from Canada ie first nations 2 languages women as mounties and even corruption in the mounties plus all the foreigners used to be a good place in Newfoundland

Yes, it is corruption and the government should release the spread of the different pharmacies, it is after all our money they are being paid with not theirs (the government)

They should do this in Australia

Potentially. Government agencies are always suspect because they don't have true checks and balances at the federal level.

It always is (for any program that gives free money to businesses) and even when the businesses rort funds, the government "forgives" multi millions in debt but if I private citizen owed $1, the government would make their lives miserable until the $1 was returned (with interest and fines).

No don't think so

Sounds like a rort to me. I am sure that money would be better off given to taxpayers. Corruption at its best.

WE PAY $5 EACH PRESCRIPTION AND WHEN YOU HAVE 20 ITS FREE FROM THE PHARMACY THE GOVERNMENT REIMBURSING THEM AFTER THAT HERE IN NZ

Your Dr prescribes your medication and surely they know what the right combinations would be.

Great idea to review prescription medication and non-prescription medication - Australia Edited 03-Mar-24 06:56am

HI Rahima

Not much knowledge on this, however I don’t trust big pharmaceutical companies or governments who are working together to make big bucks, consequently half the population is addiction to pharmaceutical medications, or being forced into vaccine’s…

I don't know anything about this particular program to comment on this. But generally, corrupt practices were reported in the media in relation to government transactions in some countries. If there are politicians involved there could be malpractices unfortunately!

don't know enough on this, sounds though like corruption , i am sure it goes on here in usa also

Absolutely! What country is this happening in and who is the leader of the country?!!!

I'm sure corporations will find a way to corrupt it for a profit. That's all they do.

If it isn't corrupt, it can certainly be used eventually for something corrupt.

Stealing our money

Everything in government is corrupt!

Sounds like a scam

Sounds like a rort

We have pharmacies here who usually pick up discrepancies and discuss it with customers. No knowledge of them being reimbursed for it though by our government. I think it is more a duty of care for them as it should be. It is not fool proof and many mistakes still occur. With all the software out there surely a quick click of a button should bring this up easily. You take this and then get prescribed that a warning should come up immediately. Not hard. Should not cost the taxpayers as in Canadas case $75 a call which is a rip off. Corporate corruption, don't think so just ineptness but of course people will take advantage of any money a government is wishing to hand out willy nilly.

Do I think MedsCheck is a corrupt government program in Canada? YES (in my opinion - based on the info in your scenario)! Since, the OPIOIDS SCANDAL spread throughout Canada and one of MEDSCHECK primary function was violated (taking the right amount of a medication)!Edited 03-Mar-24 01:05am

Big Pharma and government; YES, there is corruption there. I think it's great that we have this service (I'm in Ontario), but I don't trust government or pharmacies to do right with the money they have at their disposal.