Is this why politicians do nothing when GPs say pharmacist prescribing has harmed patients?
The way medical groups have gathered stories of patient harm has made them hard to prove.
GPs have accused prescribing pharmacists of failing to diagnose cancer and a severe kidney infection amid the campaign to stop pharmacists expanding their scope into first-time scripts for the pill.
The advocacy goal for the GPs is, presumably, to stop first-time contraception joining shingles, impetigo, psoriasis and UTIs in Victoria’s pharmacist prescribing canon on 1 July.
This month, RACGP Victoria chair Dr Anita Munoz met with Safer Care Victoria, the state’s health quality improvement organisation, to voice doctors’ concerns.
The Sydney Morning Herald said Dr Munoz had lodged a “dossier” of 64 cases, including a patient prescribed antifungal ointment when they actually had skin cancer.
