PBAC wants nurse practitioners to initiate PBS medicines
The Continuing Therapy Only restriction on nurse practitioners should be scrapped, the PBAC recommended.
Restrictions on nurse practitioners initiating PBS medicines should be scrapped with few exceptions, the PBAC has recommended.
For nurse practitioners with PBS prescribing rights, most items are restricted as ‘Continuing Therapy Only’, but the PBAC decided at its November meeting the restrictions should be scrapped.
However, it said there was a small group of PBS items that nurse practitioners should only be allowed to initiate under a shared care arrangement with a doctor.
“The PBAC considered the conditions being treated by this subset of medicines are complex and management of these conditions is likely to require specialist medical practitioner oversight,” the committee said.
