pharmacist prescribing
Advocating collaborative pharmacist prescribing
PSA says it supports collaborative prescribing of medicines by pharmacists to improve Australians’ access to safe and effective healthcare PSA made the statement in its response to the Pharmacy Board …
‘We’re not going to change our minds.’
Pharmacist prescribing is “more likely about supporting their business model,” a leading GP says The RACGP has again hit out at the concept of pharmacist prescribing, describing it as working …
World news wrapup: 12 April 2019
British MP regrets pharmacy funding cuts; new UK pharmacy minister; US pharmacy staff save a life UK: A Conservative MP has told Chemist+Druggist that he “deeply regrets” funding cuts to …
Pharmacist full scope an insult, says AMA
The Australian Medical Association says pharmacist prescribing would be a ‘fundamental conflict of interest’ The AMA has published its response to the Board’s discussion paper Pharmacist Prescribing, which proposed that …
The week in review
It’s been a busy week for the Pharmacy Guild, as it battled a proposal to let patients get double quantities of some PBS medicines per script, and encouraged Aussies to …
Prescribe three ways: Grattan
The Grattan Institute has released its submission to the Pharmacy Board of Australia’s discussion paper on pharmacist prescribing, recommending they be able to prescribe under all three suggested models The …
Pharmacists better at following UTI algorithm
When Canadian pharmacists gained the ability to prescribe contraceptives and UTI treatments, the Government wouldn’t pay them… until patients themselves stepped in Speaking at the APP conference on the Gold …
A matter of opinion
A leading pharmacist and a lawyer go head-to-head in the debate over pharmacist prescribing “Pharmacist prescribing should be implemented in Australia, without delay,” argues PSA vice president Shane Jackson in …
‘You are not in a dying profession.’
Professor Lloyd Sansom touches on the future of pharmacy, pharmacists in general practice and prescribing rights at NAPSA Congress 2019 Student delegates heard from speakers representing a variety of pharmacy …
‘Ugly truths’ about pharmacy prescribing?
Doctor publication takes aim at pharmacists and the recent push for prescribing rights during the Qld inquiry The Medical Republic publisher Jeremy Knibbs, a veteran of the medical publishing industry in Australia, …
Pharmacist prescribing forum: what’s next?
Stakeholders have shown a strong desire to progress work to enable pharmacists to prescribe S4 and S8 medicines The Pharmacy Board of Australia has published a report about the forum …
Keeping to the standard
Evidence that hospital pharmacists can prescribe to the same standards as doctors: study New Australia research provides low to moderate evidence that pharmacists can prescribe to the same standards as …