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Important Notice

The Registration Incentive of $2500 is no longer available. PBS Approved Pharmacies that register for QCPP after 31 October 2001 will NOT receive a registration incentive. However, these pharmacies will still qualify for the $3000 incentive upon successful Accreditation.

If you have not registered for QCPP, please contact the QCPP Information Line on 1300 363 340.

QCPP Financial Incentives

The Third Community Pharmacy Agreement, which became operative on 1 July 2000, provided an amount of $50m to encourage pharmacies to enrol as members of the Quality Care Pharmacy Program, to purchase all Program materials and to gain accreditation as Quality Care pharmacies.

On 1 October 2000 the QCPP Financial Incentives program was launched, with the following incentives available:

$2500 Registration Incentive - for completion of the Application Form and purchase of all Program materials (this incentive was designed to cover the cost of purchase of all materials and to cover some of the early implementation costs); No longer available.
$7500 Accreditation Incentive - for accreditation as a Quality Care pharmacy (this incentive is designed to offset some or all of the costs of implementation, including the costs of external assessment) if accreditation occurs before 1 January 2004; No longer available.
$3000 Accreditation Incentive - for accreditation as a Quality Care pharmacy (this incentive is designed to offset some or all of the costs of implementation, including the costs of external assessment) if accreditation occurs on or after 1 January 2004;
$2500 Re-assessment Incentive � for a successful assessment where an accredited pharmacy (which has been paid the $7500) is sold in respect of all of its interests and is required to undergo another external assessment within 120 days of the date of change of ownership in order to maintain the accreditation (this incentive is designed to cover the costs of reviewing all of the Standards that were put in place by the former proprietor, and the costs of a further external assessment); and
$2,500 Re-accreditation Incentive - for a successful re-accreditation of the pharmacy as part of the three-yearly cycle of external assessments. This incentive is designed to cover the costs of the QCPP Re-accreditation Fee - $1,200 Guild members, $1,800 non-Guild members and annual Program membership fees of $150.

To apply for an Incentive, fill in an Incentive Application Form