Montague Markets Pharmacy 407 Montague Road, West End, Queensland 4101

"Lady behind the counter attitude is extremely bad and rude! The same drug is more than twice as expensive as other pharmacies! Extremely greedy! Cherish life and stay away from this pharmacy!"

"Love this pharmacy, I always pop in here when I am in town! Michael, the pharmacist, is always helpful and I only rely on his advice. Thank you for the many times you have assisted in answering my questions and giving me great information on my health ailments."

"Political messages at the entry! Not good. Fact check of claims made by Pharmacy Guild of Australia- 'As part of its plan to reduce cost-of-living pressures, the federal government recently announced it would halve the number of scripts — and, by extension, co-payments — required for some drugs by allowing patients to collect 60 days' supply of medicines at a time, double the current 30-day maximum. The change was welcomed by doctors' groups, who called it a "win for patients", but condemned by the Pharmacy Guild of Australia, an industry body representing community pharmacies. Soon after the announcement, the guild launched a dedicated website warning that the new 60-day limit would "make medicines shortages worse". Some pharmacies were reportedly directing customers to the site, which hosts a petition that has so far garnered more than 80,000 signatures. "400 drugs are on the critical shortage list, and 20 per cent of these will be out of stock now that dispensing limits have been increased by the government," the website said. The figures change regularly, but data extracted from the Therapeutic Goods Admninistration's (TGA) medicine shortage database on May 23, 2022 shows that 495 medicines were facing a supply shortage. Of those, shortages for 73 medicines were "anticipated" while 422 were "current". But the Pharmacy Guild's website referred to the government's "critical" shortage list. Only 46 of the 422 entries fit that description, while the other shortages were classified as having a "medium" (114) or "low" (262) impact. Moreover, the database — which reports shortages of specific brands and products — explicitly states that alternatives, such as generic drugs or even the same type of drug in a different strength, are available for some listed medicines. This was the case for five of the 46 drugs with critical shortages (or nine including drugs available through the "special access scheme"). Meanwhile, 141 drugs of the 422 total were named as having alternatives."

"Very rude lady behind the counter who ignores customer. Is either incapable of multitasking or just plain rude. There were people waiting to be at Ed and she could have played with the system and cold and flu tablets after she served others. What a shame as the male Pharmacist is so nice there but I won’t be back."

"I have a few serious health issues and so I have tried a few of the Pharmacies within West End especially. This Pharmacy is quite new as is the Centre it resides in so I had not had the chance to try it out. I have had some mostly bad experiences prior to finding this Pharmacy and it is an absolute Gem!! The staff all greet you with a smile when I walk in and the service is 6 star. I was interested to meet the owner Michael and it is clearly where the positive and happy energy comes from as the staff are a credit to him and to themselves. So if you would like to be treated well instead of being an inconvenience then don't think about it, give this Pharmacy a go. You will not be disappointed!!"