RACGP and dermatology college strike code of silence pact on GP isotretinoin prescribing
A TGA committee will decide this month whether to allow GPs to prescribe isotretinoin after completing accredited training.
It’s one of the big issues in medicine, one that touches directly on the scope of practice of GPs.
Following an application by the RACGP, a TGA committee is about to decide whether to expand prescribing rights for isotretinoin to GPs with additional training.
The college has argued that living with significant acne has psychological harms for patients, but treatment was hard to access as it was restricted to physicians or dermatologists.
With issues like this, there are usually two sides to the debate, so a few weeks back Australian Doctor approached the Australasian College of Dermatologists for its view.
