Call for urgent revamp to PBS rules on antiepileptics

Outdated restrictions are leaving doctors in a 'legal and ethical dilemma', two experts warn
Clare Pain
Epilepsy drugs

Two leading Australian seizure experts are calling on the Department of Health to urgently revise outdated prescribing restrictions on two antiepileptic medications.

Writing in the Medical Journal of Australia, Professors Christian Gericke and Terence O’Brien say the current situation is putting patients at risk and leaving doctors in “a legal and ethical dilemma”.