Govt cuts red tape for vaping prescribers, bans non-prescription sales

The paperwork for prescribers will be eased.
Sarah Simpkins
Minister for Health Mark Butler
Minister for Health Mark Butler.

All vaping products will become prescription medicines under sweeping reforms planned for next week’s federal budget.

Doctors will also be able to prescribe unapproved vaping products more easily, as the government offers all doctors access to a streamlined TGA application process, which until now been limited to around 1600 ‘Authorised Prescribers’.