Fall in GP palliaitve care prescribing
19th October 2012
By Jo Hartley
The role of GPs as lead prescribers for palliative care patients is slowly being diminished as other health care professionals - including nurse practitioners – take on a larger role in end-of-life care, a new report shows.
Figures released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare show that GPs still prescribe 85% of palliative care drugs prescribed under the PBS palliative care-related prescriptions scheme.
However GP scripts written under the scheme dropped by an average of 5% per year in the