This Has The Feel Of Another Set Of Unintended Consequences To Me. Hopefully They Will Be Short Lived!

This appeared last week. New active ingredient prescribing rules causing medication delays: pharmacists Some doctors are not using the updated versions of their prescribing software says the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia 23rd February 2021 By Heather Saxena Some patients are facing delays receiving medicines because the move to active ingredient prescribing has led to an increase in invalid scripts, pharmacists say. Under the rules that came into effect on 1 February, the active ingredients of a prescribed PBS drug must be printed first on the script. Doctors can still specify brands, but the changes are designed to increase uptake of generic drugs and reduce medication errors. The Federal Government has said all major medical software providers have updated their programs to comply. But the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia says its members are reporting that hundreds of invalid scripts are being generated by doctors using older versions of the... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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