Active Ingredient Prescribing: Are you checking your scripts?
Earlier this year the Department of Health changed legislation so that Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and Repatriation PBS (RPBS) medicines must be prescribed using the active ingredient names, instead of the brand name of a medicine. Since the introduction of prescription by active ingredient, some software systems are generating scripts that are unclear or ambiguous. […]
Is your Clinical Software Ready for Active Ingredient Prescribing?
On Monday 1 February, the Department of Health changed legislation so that Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and Repatriation PBS (RPBS) medicines must be prescribed using the active ingredient names, instead of the brand name of a medicine. This will require practices to update prescribing software to versions that meet these new requirements. To avoid putting […]