Pharmacist prescribing trial begins – but what clinical training are they getting?

Mystery still surrounds the precise training for pharmacists to prescribe antibiotics for UTIs

Doctors have criticised the secrecy surrounding the clinical training pharmacists will undergo before they are allowed to prescribe antibiotics for UTIs.

Condemned by both the AMA and the RACGP as a risk to patients, the landmark Queensland prescribing trial finally began last week.