GP ban on aged care prescribing: ‘A simplistic, expensive recipe for disaster’
Professor Max Kamien, one of the country's leading GPs, gives his assessment of what he says is a very bad idea
Is banning GPs from prescribing antipsychotics in nursing homes really a way to improve care?
The Aged Care Royal Commission seems to think so, saying that it will help end the use of so-called chemical restraints.
It suggests from November 1 this year, only psychiatrists or geriatricians should be free to initiate the drugs, with GPs writing the repeats needed over the subsequent 12 months.
But Emeritus Professor Max Kamien says the commission has come up with a recipe for bad care and regular disasters.
