Will GPs embrace 60-day prescribing?
Much ink and even tears were spilled over the Federal Government’s plan for 60-day dispensing, but the impact on pharmacies and patients depends on a…
Tag: Pharmacy
Why pharmacist S4 prescribing is a grand clinical delusion
Some 3000 doctors have now signed the AusDoc petition calling for the pharmacy prescribing experiment in North Queensland to be disbanded. Next week the list…
I’m a pharmacist — let me explain why 60-day dispensing will wipe pharmacies out
As a pharmacist, it seems to me the federal budget took significant steps towards addressing issues with Medicare, although I admit I am not qualified…
New report ‘proof’ pharmacy prescribing for UTIs should end, says RACGP
The RACGP has called on Queensland’s new health minister to revoke pharmacists’ UTI prescribing rights after the final evaluation of its statewide pilot showed 200…
Pharmacies face $160,000 revenue cut from 60-day dispensing reform, says DoH analysis
Two weeks ago, the president of the Pharmacy Guild of Australia stood before reporters on the verge of tears as he accused the federal Minister…
NSW pharmacists start prescribing in ‘feasibility’ study as full trial pushed back
The NSW Government has officially launched its pharmacist prescribing trial with a pilot of 100 pharmacies diagnosing and treating UTIs. Lead researcher Dr Sarah Dineen-Griffin…
‘No basis’ for pharmacy guild’s medicine shortage claims: Professor Michael Kidd
The Federal Government says new advice from the PBAC and former RACGP president Professor Michael Kidd supports its decision to let GPs write double-length scripts…
Warning over OTC cold remedy use in elderly patients: case
Doctors have been urged to consider cold and flu tablets as a cause of geriatric seizure cases after an elderly man experienced a new-onset seizure…
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…
Nearly 200 women wrongly treated for recurrent UTIs in Queensland pharmacy pilot: new report
An updated evaluation of Queensland’s pharmacy UTI prescribing pilot suggests dozens of patients were wrongly treated for recurrent infections. The pilot, which ran from…
