LEGISLATION paving the way for the introduction of a real-time prescription monitoring system (RTPM) in the Northern Territory has been launched.
Announcing the legislation for the introduction of NTScript, Health Minister, Natasha Fyles, said the system would bring the Territory into line with other jurisdictions across the country.
Fyles noted that some jurisdictions currently operating RTPM had made their use mandatory, and "the same provisions are being proposed... to require prescribers and pharmacists to look up NTScript before prescribing or supplying a monitored medicine".
She added the system would promote "honest and collaborative discussions between prescribers, pharmacists and their patients".
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