Why the RACGP isn’t walking out of the next pharmacy prescribing trial
Professor Charlotte Hespe said GPs were able to push for extra safeguards.
The RACGP has backed a NSW trial of pharmacists diagnosing and treating UTIs to be safer and more scientifically robust than its Queensland counterpart.
The trial, led by the University of Newcastle, has been signed off by a Human Research Ethics Committee and is scheduled to commence “shortly”, according to NSW Health.
It will start with pharmacists prescribing antibiotics, then oral contraceptives.
RACGP NSW/ACT chair Professor Charlotte Hespe said the college was against pharmacist prescribing of any S4 medicines.
