Primary care at the heart of social prescribing national rollout The RACGP was part of a recent roundtable discussion aimed at broadening the landscape of social prescribing in Australia.
In Practice: Updates to allied health MBS items Referral changes to MBS items for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander patients accessing allied health services are now in place.
Shingles management added to pharmacy prescribing pilot Victorian pharmacists can supply treatments from next month, but one GP says ‘fearless’ evaluation is key to the trial's success.
How GPs can avoid overprescribing We need to use our current antibiotics more wisely, write Professor Paul Glasziou and Assistant Professor Mina Bakhit.
‘Never been a worse time’ for pharmacy prescribing to expand South Australia has announced during World AMR Awareness Week that community pharmacists will soon be able to prescribe antibiotics to treat UTIs.
PBS authority process needs ‘serious revamp’: RACGP The ‘administrative and bureaucratic burden’ diverts GPs from patient care and contributes to burnout, the college has said.
Patient speaks out after online prescribing ‘ordeal’ One Australian woman is warning about the dangers of bypassing a GP, after ineffective medication for a UTI left her fighting for life in hospital.
Questions persist around pharmacist prescribing education The RACGP has once again raised serious concerns about diagnosis and training, as a second round of consultation on the changes kicks off.
PBS authorities: Pain points and upcoming improvements Dr Rob Hosking provides an update on RACGP efforts to revamp the much-maligned system.
ED presentations for UTIs surge in wake of pharmacy prescribing New figures show there were nearly 12,000 additional presentations between April 2022–23 compared to 2020, when the scheme was introduced.