It Seems Victoria Is Being Sensible In Getting Going On The Prescription Monitoring System.

This appeared last week:7 August 2017Victoria goes it alone on real-time monitoringPosted by Julie Lambert The Victorian government ’s decision to go it alone with a mandatory real-time prescription monitoring for high-risk medicines has exposed some disarray in the plans for a national scheme.Victoria’s Health Minister, Jill Hennessy, recently announced a $29.5 million plan to roll out the surveillance program to crack down on the misuse of dangerous prescription drugs within the next year, including $1 million to train doctors and pharmacists.“In an Australian first, and following worldwide best practice, using the system will be mandatory for doctors and pharmacists before prescribing or supplying a high-risk medi cine,” the state minister said in a statement.As well as Schedule 8 drugs such as morphine and oxycodone, the new rules will apply to benzodiazepines, “Z-class” medicines taken for insomnia, and the anti-psychotic, quetiapine. Codeine will be added to the watch list at... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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