Doctors Sore Over Radical Pharmacist Treatment Plan

Published on July 27, 2024

A plan to allow pharmacists to treat patients for more than a dozen common conditions could risk lives, an influential doctors group warns. The proposal by the Country Liberal Party ahead of the Northern Territory’s (NT’s) Aug. 24 election comes as other states and territories undertake pharmacy prescription trials allowing patients to bypass GPs. Pharmacists in the NT would be given the power to treat 21 conditions, including school sores, shingles, asthma, swimmer’s ear, and hypertension. Urinary tract infection treatments would be made available within the first 100 days of a Country Liberal government, during which pharmacists would also begin training to treat the other conditions....

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