The Department of Health has taken no action against staff whose negotiation of an agreement with community pharmacists resulted in administrative errors and failed to deliver $1 billion in expected savings.

A withering audit of the 2010 deal struck between the federal government and the Pharmacy Guild found it lacked transparency and was messy in its implementation.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull says there will be no changes to Australia's laws or Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme as a result of the TPP. Credit:Louie Douvis

The fifth Community Pharmacy Agreement committed the government to paying $15.4 billion to the Pharmacy Guild to dispense medicines listed under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme to the public over five years.

The Australian National Audit Office reported in March that there were "shortcomings in key aspects of Health's administration at the development, negotiation and implementation phases" of the agreement.