Ophthalmologists have pointed out an error in the NSW pharmacy trial prescribing guidelines — one that ends up confusing between two different manifestations of herpes…
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…
This story has been updated. The findings analysed audited consults including all consultations that an algorithm specifically identified as potential high-risk or critical errors, as…
Pharmacists who complete a new extended master’s degree will have the right to call themselves ‘doctor’, Mark Butler has announced. The federal Minister for Health…
The antispasmodic baclofen, commonly prescribed off label for alcohol dependency, has been implicated in 102 deaths since 2000, Australian researchers say. More than 50% of…
NT pharmacists will treat 23 conditions — including school sores, otitis media, asthma and COPD — in another major pharmacist prescribing pilot. The recently elected…
With assessments costing thousands of dollars, years-long wait times, exploding demand and little public sector help, ADHD care seemed at breaking point. Exactly one year…
Following the heated controversy over Queensland’s pharmacy prescribing experiment, around 400 patients — potentially fewer — have consulted a pharmacist. A big question is what…
These are difficult times. As clinicians, we not only need to know all the medications prescribed within our scope of practice, but to recognise which…
A doctor working for a telehealth cannabis clinic has prescribed 12,000 medicinal cannabis scripts in six months, according to AHPRA — an average of 90…
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