Australian Prescriber is unlikely to survive unless the Federal Government overturns the decision to defund NPS MedicineWise, the journal’s former chair has warned.  

The Morrison Government axed $25 million in annual funding for NPS MedicineWise in its final budget.

While the new Labor Government has commissioned Deloitte to review the decision, if it goes ahead, it will mean that the NPS MedicineWise website as well as the MedicineInsight program, which collects GP data for research, will be transferred to the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality Care at the end of the year.

But the fate of Australian Prescriber, which is funded by NPS MedicineWise, is far from clear.