Outcry over clause banning after-hours deputisers from prescribing

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After-hours deputisers will be barred from writing new scripts without the permission of a patient’s regular GP under a clause buried deep in the Federal Government’s new rules for the sector.

Doctors are now agitating for an urgent rewrite, saying patients will be put at risk.

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