THE Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has backed the NSW Labor Party's promise of a real time prescription monitoring (RTPM) system for the state (PD yesterday).
PSA NSW president, Professor Peter Carroll, who was present at the announcement, said the PSA "fully supports the announcement by NSW Labor that if elected to Government they will introduce a Real Time Prescription Monitoring System into NSW.
"Deaths from prescription opioids continue to rise, and PSA has been advocating with the NSW Government to introduce a Real Time Prescription Monitoring System to prevent these deaths, along with a number of coroners' reports indicating that such a system is needed".
Carroll decried recent statements by the NSW chief pharmacist who warned an RTPM was "years away," with the PSA president saying such a system could prevent deaths from drug misuse.
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