Reality check: GPs are now regarded as expensive script vending machines
The patient sits down at the start of their 15-minute appointment and pulls out their list. My face betrays the surge of anticipatory anxiety inspired…
Tag: Prescribing
Another State Government pledges to follow Queensland and Victoria with huge expansion of pharmacy prescribing
More pharmacists will diagnose and prescribe S4 drugs for wounds, reflux and shingles if the Liberal Government is re-elected in Tasmania’s snap election next month.…
Coroner blames ‘cumbersome’ software for doctor’s insulin prescribing error before patient death
A coroner has avoided criticising a doctor over a patient’s accidental extra insulin dose, saying “cumbersome” hospital software shouldered more of the blame. Veronica Roberts,…
Nurses will need 5000 hours’ experience, postgraduate training and six months of mentoring to prescribe S8 drugs
RNs with three years’ full-time experience and a postgraduate qualification will be able to apply to prescribe S8 drugs with medical supervision under the Nursing…
Doctors are writing thousands of medicinal cannabis scripts for chronic pain, but is it a waste of time?
More Australians than ever are being prescribed medicinal cannabis. Medicinal cannabis refers to legally prescribed cannabis products. These are either the plant itself, or naturally…
State Govt will cover the cost of pharmacist consults for 20 medical conditions including diabetes and hypertension
Victorian pharmacists with extra training will manage and prescribe S4 drugs for type 2 diabetes, hypertension and allergies through taxpayer-funded consultations, Premier Jacinta Allen says.…
1350 consults in first year of pharmacist prescribing in Queensland
Queensland pharmacists have conducted 1350 consultations for medical conditions such as shingles, impetigo and reflux in their first year of prescribing S4 medicines. By May…
Antidepressant scripts for kids: ‘We don’t have enough resources and services are scarce’
Social media and the cost of living are adding to the childhood mental health burden and the resultant rise in antidepressant prescribing, a child psychiatrist…
60-day prescribing uptake only 30%, analysis finds
GPs used 60-day prescribing for fewer than 30% of eligible scripts in the policy’s first year, analysis of PBS data has found. The Federal Government…
Medicare’s magical number factory: Why do bureaucrats trust doctors to save lives but not prescribe?
“Who are these people?” I wondered after I hung up the phone with ‘Charlene’ from the authority line. She had a cheerful voice and was,…
