Allowing chiropractors to directly refer to orthopaedic surgeons under Medicare and mandatory accreditation for all GP practices are two of the radical suggestions in the…
Following the heated controversy over Queensland’s pharmacy prescribing experiment, around 400 patients — potentially fewer — have consulted a pharmacist. A big question is what…
Pharmacists can now supply nicotine vapes without a prescription in most Australian states under new laws that have outraged the Pharmacy Guild of Australia. From…
Pharmacists extending contraceptive pill scripts is becoming a permanent fixture of the NSW health system. Last year, the State Government launched a clinical trial of pharmacists extending…
Dear Mr Butler, After one year and more than 1100 submissions, the long painful exercise known as the Scope of Practice Review is set to…
The NSW Government wants pharmacists to diagnose and treat seven more conditions by 2026, including mild to moderate acne and acute minor wounds. The other…
A pharmacist who founded online medicinal cannabis clinic Dispensed has had conditions put on his registration banning him from dispensing cannabis. Under Pharmacy Board of…
Do medical groups waste time attacking the Pharmacy Guild of Australia when they should be advancing the interests of doctors? It is certainly the view…
Whenever pharmacists push further into diagnosing and prescribing, GPs ask the question. If the prescriber-dispenser divide is truly an ancient notion, rather than pharmacists prescribing,…
This is the last of AusDoc’s question-and-answer articles with the GPs bidding for your vote in the RACGP presidential election, to be held later this…
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