Has the genie escaped? Health ministers uncap the bottle on nurses prescribing S4 drugs
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.…
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Nurse prescribing of S4 and S8 drugs to start in 2025 but will not be ‘open slather’
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.…
Specialists warn of clinical errors in NSW pharmacist prescribing trial guidelines
Ophthalmologists have pointed out an error in the NSW pharmacy trial prescribing guidelines — one that ends up confusing between two different manifestations of herpes…
Remove medicinal cannabis from Special Access Scheme, doctors tell TGA
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…
Telehealth corporate finds its rate of serious clinical errors ‘appears a little high’
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…
Mark Butler announces new five-year degree that will allow pharmacists to call themselves ‘doctor’
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…
Baclofen linked to more than 100 deaths across two decades, Aussie researchers say
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 follows Queensland with massive pharmacist S4 prescribing trial
NT pharmacists will treat 23 conditions — including school sores, otitis media, asthma and COPD — in another major pharmacist prescribing pilot. The recently elected…
One year on: ADHD prescribing rights expanded but GPs still waiting on promised big changes
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…
Pharmacists have performed just 415 consults in Queensland’s prescribing trial, but what they are doing exactly remains a mystery
Following the heated controversy over Queensland’s pharmacy prescribing experiment, around 400 patients — potentially fewer — have consulted a pharmacist. A big question is what…
