Pharmacy Connect 2024

Meridian Lawyers together with 542 Partners are delighted to be sponsoring a session at Pharmacy Connect 2024

Starting & Finishing Strong – Structuring your pharmacy business for financial, tax and legal success

Friday 5 September, Hyatt Regency Sydney

Meridian Lawyers’ pharmacy Principal, Georgina Odell, and Stuart Brandman, chartered accountant, and Director of 542 Partners, join forces to provide their legal and accounting perspectives and insights into potential structures for pharmacy businesses, and address the financial, tax, and legal implications associated with different structures.

Georgina and Stuart have more than 20 years’ combined experience advising pharmacists at all stages of their ownership journey, whether they are establishing a new pharmacy, buying an existing business, or preparing to sell.

Visit Pharmacy Connect to learn more about this exciting three-day conference

Meridian Lawyers Pharmacy Team

We are recognised as a leading pharmacy law practice in Australia. We act for many pharmacists across the country, and are the principal legal advisor to the Pharmacy Guild of Australia.

Clients value our personal approach and extensive knowledge of the pharmacy profession. Our team assists clients to address the legal and ethical obligations that arise in managing their day-to-day operations.

We advise on:

  • Buying and Selling a Pharmacy
  • Banner Agreements
  • Partnership Agreements
  • Australian Privacy Laws
  • Claims Management
  • Defamation
  • Workplace Relations and Safety
  • Regulatory Issues
  • Pharmacy Location Rule Issues
  • Business Structures
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Ministerial Discretion applications

Meet our pharmacy team

About 542 Partners

542 Partners is a team of strategic accountants experienced in helping pharmacists across every stage of their business journey.

Their team-oriented approach includes working with a range of professional partners, including lawyers, and insurance brokers to achieve business goals.

542 Partners provides holistic accounting, tax and advisory services ranging from pre-acquisition services, structuring, contract review, cash flow forecasting, to ongoing tax compliance, administration, and succession planning.

The team also leverages the latest technology and focuses on targeted processes that achieve real-time client insights. Their expertise is based on best practice data with a commitment to being open and easily approachable.

Meet the 542 Partners team

Resources 

To understand the current issues facing pharmacy, access Meridian’s latest pharmacy insights below:

 

Insights

Privacy and data breaches

Pharmacy | Data breaches and privacy – how to safeguard your business’s future success

Dispensing with inappropriate behaviour – a guide for pharmacists

Pharmacy Location Rules – understanding the process for PBS approval in large medical centres

Cyber Security Awareness Month – Are you cyber aware?

Buying and selling a pharmacy | Why it makes good business sense to partner with a lawyer

Deal or No Deal: from handshakes, heads of agreement to contracts – what’s legally binding, and what’s not?

Convicted health professionals may face registration suspension

Are the Australian Privacy Reforms on your radar?

Pharmacy Sale and Purchase Update

New regulations are now in force for all health practitioners and organisations in NSW

Online Reviews & Defamation

The Privacy Landscape in Australia following the introduction of the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme in 2018

Complex Compounding – How does a pharmacist prove competency?

Pharmacists: are you ready for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout?

Real time prescription monitoring: assisting practitioners to make better informed prescribing decisions

Pitfalls of promoting health services on social media

The value of a pharmacy partnership or shareholder agreement

Federal Court of Australia confirms Professional Services Review (PSR) has the power to order part repayments

No half doses in pharmacy ownership

Pharmacy relocation – tips for navigating the critical steps

Using the new MBS telehealth item numbers to care for patients from home? Here are some of the risks and limitations for medical practitioners

A reminder on section 130 of the National Law: notify the National Boards of ‘certain events’, or face a possible finding of unprofessional conduct

Professional Services in New South Wales – approval is required

Bushfire Emergency Declaration

Help! I’m being Audited

AHPRA releases revised Guidelines for Mandatory Notifications about registered health practitioners

Audio and Video Records – are they legal?

Owing prescriptions – are you courting danger?

Payroll tax clampdown on healthcare clinic operators

Electronic Prescriptions

You have received a notification – what now?

What happens to healthcare complaints in Western Australia?

Pharmacy Workplace Relations – Hot Topics

Directors’ Duties

Be Data Smart

Applications for new PBS Approvals or relocations of existing PBS approvals

Steroids and hormone therapies – Off label use or misuse/abuse?

How can you tell if you have been given a forged prescription and what to do if you have

What are pharmacists’ obligations when supplying pseudoephedrine?

Medication Misadventure – Methotrexate: A reminder to pharmacists to exercise independent judgment about the safety of a prescribed medicine.

‘SafeScript’ Roll-out: An update for practitioners on important regulatory changes from 1 July 2018

Recent trends in buying and selling pharmacies

Pharmacy Franchise Law – tips for franchisees

Misuse, interference or loss of personal information by pharmacists – new mandatory notifications for data breaches

Expanding or contracting your pharmacy? Don’t forget Pharmacy Location Rule 121

Victoria to roll out real-time prescription monitoring system in 2018

Pharmacy insights – Spring 2017

A reminder for pharmacists: exercise caution when dispensing Schedule 3 Poisons

‘Phillips arrangements’: It may be time to review your service company arrangements

Beware of altered, forged or fraudulent prescriptions: a reminder for pharmacists

Real-time prescription monitoring: what does it mean for health practitioners?

Succession planning for your partnership

Pharmacy location rules: Who are ‘persons aggrieved’ by new approvals?

Nurofen Specific Pain claims: Federal Court finds misleading conduct

Online pharmacy retailer pays $32,400 for misleading product pricing

Aim for a pain-free goodbye

The changing state of play: The natural evolution of the professional regulation of pharmacy

Meridian Lawyers assists with NAPSA’s constitution overhaul

Schedule 8 medications: A disturbing trend in storage and record keeping

Pharmacy alert: maintaining script certifications