VICTORIAN pharmacists are being urged to ensure their registration details with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency are up to date, in the lead-up to the planned Oct launch of the SafeScript real-time prescription monitoring service.
The Department of Health and Human Services is working with the Pharmacy Board of Australia to automate pharmacist registration for access to SafeScript.
However, to benefit from the integration, pharmacists must ensure their principal place of practice and email address are up to date in AHPRA's systems.
According to an update from the Pharmacy Board, online registration for SafeScript will open closer to the implementation date, with the roll-out to initially focus on a specific location before expanding across Vic in early 2019.
The system, which is being developed by Pharmacy Guild offshoot Fred IT, will provide prescribers and pharmacists with access to patient prescription records during consultations, in order to enable safer clinical decision making.
After an 18-month introductory period it will become mandatory to check SafeScript when writing or dispensing a script for a high-risk medicine, including all S8 medicines as well as S4 benzodiazepines, Z-drugs and quietapine.
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