On the way home from a GP visit, your patient wanders into the supermarket to drop in their prescription at the supermarket pharmacy before heading down the bread aisle. Shopping done, they pick up their pills on the way out.

Across the US, UK and mainland Europe, supermarket pharmacies are becoming the norm. But in Australia, they’re banned.

The Commonwealth government is negotiating the seventh Community Pharmacy Agreement with pharmacists, which outlines how community pharmacy is delivered over the next five years, who delivers it and where.

So could pharmacies in supermarkets be an option for Australia?