Priceline, SiSU extend deal

AUSTRALIAN Pharmaceutical Industries (API) will expand the health station offering across the entire national Priceline Pharmacy network, extending its exclusive partnership with SiSU Health Group for a further five years.

SiSU’s free health check stations have so far completed more than 900,000 diabetes risk assessments and measured significant improvements in health risks, API CEO, Richard Vincent, said.

“More than 10,000 customers every week are using the health stations, showing us they want easy access to reliable, accurate information which helps inform them about how to better manage their healthcare,” he said.

“Our pharmacy teams will remain the front line for helping customers through their healthcare journey, and the health stations allow us to triage customers that are at risk through to the pharmacists.

“We’re increasing the footprint to put the health stations into more stores, including our company stores, so they are more easily accessible for all our customers.”

The health station checks take four minutes on average, and the companies said that over the next three months the health stations will add the identification of atrial fibrillation, which can often be undiagnosed without regular heart health check-ups with a GP.

SiSU Health Group CEO, Noel Duncan, said “it is likely that we are running Australia’s largest ongoing health program which we can demonstrate is delivering benefits and significant results for the participants”.