Nurses target PBS funding for when they start prescribing S4 and S8 drugs later this year
Nursing groups are already bidding for PBS subsidies after health ministers decided to let RNs prescribe S4 and S8 drugs, starting this year. In an…
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Are younger doctors too scared to prescribe S4 painkillers?
One thing that pisses me off, as a late-career doctor, is the number of younger GPs who seem to be scared to prescribe certain S4…
Doctors making four million calls to the authority script line every year— but how many requests are rejected?
Doctors are making more than four million phone calls a year to the PBS authority script line despite the vast majority of requests being ticked…
‘We should be careful about prescribing these drugs willy-nilly’: Prof Simon Willcock on GP treatment of ADHD
“A non-medical colleague contacted me recently to ask whether his son doing a school exam could have a Ritalin prescription.” “He said his son tried…
GPs need ‘prompt and complete’ discharge summaries: coroner
A coroner has again flagged the importance of discharge summaries being “promptly communicated” to GPs following the death of a patient from prescription drug toxicity.…
GPs will diagnose ADHD and initiate meds under state govt promise
GPs with extra training will be able to diagnose ADHD and initiate medication for adults and children aged 10 and above if the WA Government…
Has the genie escaped? Health ministers uncap the bottle on nurses prescribing S4 drugs
There is no escaping that the gathering of the country’s various health ministers last Friday carried a historical significance when it comes to health reform.…
Nurse prescribing of S4 and S8 drugs to start in 2025 but will not be ‘open slather’
Nurses have received the green light to prescribe ‘in partnership’ with doctors or nurse practitioners from mid-2025, including S8 drugs for cancer and palliative care.…
Specialists warn of clinical errors in NSW pharmacist prescribing trial guidelines
Ophthalmologists have pointed out an error in the NSW pharmacy trial prescribing guidelines — one that ends up confusing between two different manifestations of herpes…
Remove medicinal cannabis from Special Access Scheme, doctors tell TGA
Queensland doctors and pharmacists want medicinal cannabis removed from the special access scheme, saying the pathway is being used to bypass TGA assessment. AMA Queensland…
