Patients at risk under pharmacy emergency dispensing powers: RACGP
Professor Mark Morgan says it's unknown how the scheme is being monitored.
The emergency rule allowing pharmacists to dispense prescription medicines without a script is a potential risk to patient safety, the RACGP says.
Pharmacists were granted permission to give patients up to one month’s supply of their usual PBS medicine during the summer’s bushfires, if GPs were unavailable to write a repeat.
