SICK PHARMACIES GO FOR THE DOCTOR

As  a  result  of  the  Harrison Group   having   been  placed  into   receivership   in  March  ,  medical    centre    doctors,   pharmacists    and  other  staff   have  been   departing .   Harrison's  , with  its   head  office  in  Sydney ,   ran   14  pharmacies  and   six  medical centres  in  NSW, Queensland,  South  Australia  and   the  NT .  Newspaper  advertisements   offered  the   business  for  sale as  a  group  or  separately.   In  Townsville ,   Harrison's  medical  centre  in  the  centrally  located  Castletown    shopping  centre   is  expected  to  close  within   weeks,  some  doctors   having   already   departed.  The  pharmacy attached to the centre  now calls itself  The Friendlies, instead of Harrison's .   There  is  a  busy  Harrison's  beauty  and    pharmacy centre    in   the  Darwin   Casuarina  shopping  complex .   Last   year   the   Pulse  Pharmacies chain   went  into receivership  after  it  collapsed  owing   $72  million.