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Prescriptions - Medications

• 14 May - Being medicine wise during COVID-19
• 8 May NPS COVID-19 Quality use of medicine: evidence, risks and fads
• 5 May - Remdesivir - commentary
• 22 Apr - NPS Principles of ethical prescribing - discussion of hydroxychloroquine and other meds)
• 17 Apr - image based prescribing is now valid
• 2 Apr - no longer need to use faxes for sending scripts - see guidelines
• 2 Apr reg 49 could lead to medication shortages
• 2 Apr - electronic prescribing being fast tracked due in May - open link and scroll down
• 31 Mar - TGACoronavirus (COVID-19) information on medicines and medications 
• 19 Mar - TGA limits on dispensing and sales​

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Software

Identified problems​

• problems with PRODA
• ​link to requesting authority scripts on line, I salute you all for following this

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Vaccines and Vaccinations

• 2 May - Developing a  COVID-19 vaccine 
• 1 May - email on vaccine shortages - Lee Fong

Pharmacists

• Database for chemists - HealthDirect 
• Database for chemists - Pharmacy Guild
• 31 Mar - pharmacists have been given new powers - including dispensing without prescriptions

Direct links to HealthPathway COVID-19 Pages (Pathway most relevant to this topic is underlined)

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