They Really Seems To Be Dragging Their Feet On Getting This Going!

This appeared last week:No timeline to roll out service to end doctor shopping, court toldBy Angus Thompson10 May 2018 — 6:05pmHealth authorities have no timeline for the introduction of a real-time prescription monitoring service to stop doctor shopping in NSW, an inquest into opiate deaths has heard.NSW Chief Pharmacist, Dr Judith Mackson, told Deputy State Coroner Harriet Grahame that, despite government commit ments to rolling out the service, the potentially lifesaving system was still far from being realised.The Health Council of the Council of Australian Governments last month determined that a national model for real-time prescription monitoring would be created, with states feeding the data from thei r own systems into a federal one.The inquest, being held at the NSW Coroners Court in Glebe, is examining paths to regulatory change against the backdrop of six fatal opiate-related overdoses in 2016.Three of the victims had consumed fentanyl, a synthetic opioid 100 times stronger... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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