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…
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‘Deliberately humiliating’: Court puts prominent GP’s conditions on hold
A temporary ban preventing a GP from prescribing controlled drugs has been lifted, after a court found there was no “compelling urgency” for the Medical…
Pharmacy prescribing and three reasons all doctors should add their names to the AusDoc campaign
The concerns about the safety of pharmacy prescribing in the North Queensland trial is too often described as no more than a turf war. The…
Pharmacist prescribing is not safe: Presidents of 15 specialist medical colleges condemn assault on TGA schedule
The presidents of Australia’s specialist medical colleges have spoken out against the dismantling of the TGA scheduling system to allow pharmacists to prescribe S4 drugs.…
Option of last resort? One million patients prescribed cannabis, figures reveal
Medicinal cannabis is supposed to be a last resort, accessible almost solely through the TGA’s Special Access Scheme for unlicensed drugs. Yet doctors have prescribed…
Sign our petition to end the pharmacy prescribing trial – 2000 doctors have so far
We are launching this petition to make clear the scale of the opposition across the medical profession to the North Queensland pharmacy prescribing trial. The…
Why isn’t the TGA stopping pharmacist prescribing of S4 medicines? AusDoc asks its boss
The medicines schedule created by the TGA is the principal mechanism to prevent mass harm to patients in Australia. Yet with no outcry, no protest,…
Pharmacists will diagnose and prescribe antibiotics for impetigo — based on a single Scottish trial
In the final part of our series unpicking the clinical basis of dramatically expanded pharmacist prescribing, Dr Evan Ackermann examines the protocols published by Queensland…
‘This is hope not science’: How pharmacists will treat nausea and vomiting
You can pretend that opposition to the radical expansion of pharmacists’ involvement in diagnosis and prescribing in North Queensland is nothing more than a turf…
AMA launches new campaign against pharmacist independent prescribing
The AMA has opened fire on independent prescribing by pharmacists warning it’s being rolled out by states and territories with no appropriate trials or clinical…
