THE national body that is the voice for GPs has put out a petition to "illustrate the collective alarm in the medical profession" about the pharmacist-prescribing trial in North Queensland.
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners' (RACGP) petition, which will be presented to all states and territories as well as the Federal Government, includes wording that "pharmacists with virtually no training in the complexities of differential diagnosis are being expected to diagnose, manage, prescribe and dispense drugs for conditions ranging from skin problems and acute nausea to asthma and COPD as well as heart disease risk factors.
"Allowing hundreds of health practitioners to prescribe and dispense S4 medications and antibiotics also dismantles the prescriber-dispenser divide."
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