NT follows Queensland with massive pharmacist S4 prescribing trial
NT pharmacists will treat 23 conditions — including school sores, otitis media, asthma and COPD — in another major pharmacist prescribing pilot. The recently elected…
Tag: NT (Northern Territory)
Group A strep: a post-COVID threat
Need to know: Strep A (Streptococcus pyogenes or group A streptococcus) is estimated to cause over 18 million cases of severe disease and 500,000 deaths…
Spitting on doctors to trigger three-month prison sentence under new laws
Spitting on doctors, nurses, paramedics, police or other frontline workers will result in a minimum three-month prison term under harsher penalties being introduced in the…
Another government looking at pharmacist prescribing for wounds, impetigo and more
NT pharmacists could soon prescribe S4 medicines for wounds, otitis media and impetigo under what the territory government is calling “a commonsense” proposal. Last week,…
‘Inspiring journeys out of real hardship’: Why this GP wanted to work at Headspace
“Young people I have seen over difficult periods lasting several years, I later find out are married and working in a stable job or studying.…
‘I wish I didn’t have to be here’: Doctors converge on Canberra to fight gas plant
Darwin paediatrician Dr Louise Woodward says she would rather be at home working with sick children than in Canberra battling the approval of NT gas…
NT alcohol restrictions end next week – but not everyone’s toasting the change
In 2012, legislation was introduced in the NT to restrict the possession and supply of alcohol without a liquor licence or permit in designated alcohol protected areas. This…
COVID-19 hits crisis level in the NT
With per-capita hospitalisation rates double what NSW saw in its peak, there are fears about the ability of the Territory health system to cope.
First medical school for Top End
Darwin is to get its own medical school to start training doctors for the NT.
Indigenous women with GDM ‘high risk’ for post-partum bleeds
Care should be taken in the third stage of labour to minimise bleeding, researchers say.
