Why the RACGP isn’t walking out of the next pharmacy prescribing trial
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…
Tag: Pharmacists
Govt’s masterplan for enrolment includes GP cash for ‘frequent flyer’ patients
The long-foreshadowed voluntary patient enrolment scheme will begin this year, targeting so-called “frequent flyers” as well as regular GP patients, the Minister for Health and…
Pharmacy prescribing and three reasons all doctors should add their names to the AusDoc campaign
The concerns about the safety of pharmacy prescribing in the North Queensland trial is too often described as no more than a turf war. The…
Pharmacist prescribing is not safe: Presidents of 15 specialist medical colleges condemn assault on TGA schedule
The presidents of Australia’s specialist medical colleges have spoken out against the dismantling of the TGA scheduling system to allow pharmacists to prescribe S4 drugs.…
Sign our petition to end the pharmacy prescribing trial – 2000 doctors have so far
We are launching this petition to make clear the scale of the opposition across the medical profession to the North Queensland pharmacy prescribing trial. The…
Why isn’t the TGA stopping pharmacist prescribing of S4 medicines? AusDoc asks its boss
The medicines schedule created by the TGA is the principal mechanism to prevent mass harm to patients in Australia. Yet with no outcry, no protest,…
‘This is hope not science’: How pharmacists will treat nausea and vomiting
You can pretend that opposition to the radical expansion of pharmacists’ involvement in diagnosis and prescribing in North Queensland is nothing more than a turf…
Stop the pharmacy prescribing trial — 1075 doctors sign petition within first 36 hours
You can read below the names of all the doctors who have so far signed the AusDoc petition warning of the safety risks posed by…
Pharmacy prescribing: The alarming powers to change doctors’ treatment plans
“I imagine most doctors have not thought about implications of the medication management provisions of the pharmacy prescribing trial.” This quote from Dr Evan Ackermann…
Why sign the petition against the pharmacist prescribing trial? This is how they’ll manage CV risk in T2DM
The opposition to the North Queensland trial is simple. It is about the clinical safety of community pharmacists diagnosing, prescribing, managing and dispensing well beyond…
