‘No evidence’ GPs inappropriately prescribed fluticasone inhalers: RACGPÂ
The college wants a ‘complete reversal’ of recent PBS changes.
The PBS ban on GPs initiating Flixotide Junior and Axotide Junior sends the wrong message to patients that inhaled corticosteroids are unsafe and that GPs are prescribing them inappropriately, the RACGP says.
Since 1 April, only respiratory physicians or paediatricians have been allowed to initiate funded scripts for fluticasone propionate 50µg per actuation inhalation, 120 actuations, in patients under six.
The inhalers were also made authority only, and subsidises for children aged six or older were scrapped completely.
RACGP president Dr Nicole Higgins wrote to the PBAC last week protesting the changes.
