If You Were Wondering What Happened To Real-Time Prescription Monitoring The Minister Thinks He Knows!

This popped up last week!States to blame for national real-time script-tracking saga: Hunt Health minister sets new deadline for 'heel-dragging' states to jump on board10th February 2020By Antony ScholefieldIf you are wondering what happened to the national roll-out of real-time prescription monitoring, Minister for Health Greg Hunt says blame the states.The introduction of a national tracking system to tackle the deaths and health harms of the opioid epidemic has become one of the longest unimplemented policy initiatives in Australian healthcare — with the first federal reform pledge dating back to 2012.Five years later, Mr Hunt declared the government would build "a nationally consistent, mandated system for real-time monitoring of controlled drugs", at a cost of $16 million.However, it subsequently became clear it would only build a "national data exchange" to collate prescription reports from state- and territory-based real-time monitoring systems, which, outside... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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