'Doctor shopper' scheme funding concerns
4th February 2013
The adequacy of the Federal Government's $5 million funding commitment to tackle doctor-shopping has been called into question by a group of experts.
Writing in the Medical Journal of Australia they say doctors will need access to extra resources in order to respond appropriately to patients found visiting different GPs and pharmacists to obtain Schedule 8 drugs under the proposed national script-tracking system.
They warn that the benefits of real