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    Tag: Prescribing

    ‘We are going to listen to you now’: Dr Liz Marles on protecting patients from the harms of too much medicine

    March 24, 2025

    Polypharmacy is a complex issue for doctors, particularly when it comes to older patients — the gradual functional decline, the increasing frailty, and cascading complications…

    Pharmacy prescribing made permanent in Queensland despite just 62 pharmacists finishing their training

    March 21, 2025

    Pharmacist prescribing of S4 drugs for impetigo, reflux and obesity is becoming a permanent part of the health system despite a lack of evaluation. Queensland…

    Nurses target PBS funding for when they start prescribing S4 and S8 drugs later this year

    March 19, 2025

    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…

    Are younger doctors too scared to prescribe S4 painkillers?

    March 19, 2025

    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?

    March 12, 2025

    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

    March 3, 2025

    “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

    February 28, 2025

    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

    February 17, 2025

    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

    December 12, 2024

    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’

    December 11, 2024

    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.…

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    Nurse prescribing of S4 and S8 drugs to start in 2025 but will not be 'open slather'

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