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Prescribing software should automatically include active ingredients on prescriptions, brand name preferences can be included after the active ingredient(s), if clinically necessary. These requirements only apply to computer generated prescriptions with up to three active ingredients. Handwritten prescriptions are excluded.
Read more on the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care website.
Changes to legislation will require the inclusion of active ingredients on all PBS and Repatriation PBS prescriptions from 1st February 2021. These regulatory changes, aim to alleviate brand confusion and provide consistency. While patients are getting used to active ingredient names, help...
The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care has extended the consultation on the draft National Safety and Quality Primary Healthcare (NSQPH) Standards until Friday 29 January 2021. This is to ensure those wanting to contribute to Australia’s first nationally consistent safety a...
On 10 July 2020, the approved requirements for electronic prescriptions1 was certified (‘certified instrument’) in accordance with the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation 1996 (HDPR). The ‘certified instrument’ specifies the legislative requirements for a lawful electronic prescription th...
An amendment has been made to the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation 1996 (HDPR) to support the Commonwealth Government’s National Health (COVID-19 Supply of Pharmaceutical Benefits) Special Arrangement 2020. The amendment: enables a prescriber to send a digital image of a prescription to a dis...
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