PBAC wants nurse practitioners to initiate PBS medicines
The Continuing Therapy Only restriction on nurse practitioners should be scrapped, the PBAC recommended.
Restrictions on nurse practitioners initiating PBS medicines should be scrapped with few exceptions, the PBAC has recommended.
For nurse practitioners with PBS prescribing rights, most items are restricted as ‘Continuing Therapy Only’, but the PBAC decided at its November meeting the restrictions should be scrapped.
