I am heartily pissed off with the ever-changing and confusing requirements for COVID-19 telehealth and e-prescribing.

Here is an example of a typical, time wasting, administrative shemozzle we GPs have to deal with. I am sure there are many other similar scenarios.

The situation:

While doing a telehealth consultation early one evening, with a young mother – non rebatable because, thanks to COVID-19, we hadn’t had a face-to-face consultation for more than 12 months – she asked me for an urgent repeat prescription for her son.