Submission
AMA submission on the consultation of the revised National Prescribing Competencies Framework
The Australian healthcare system is increasingly facing the challenge of improving community access to medicines amid workforce shortages and rising demand from growing and ageing populations with increased chronic disease.
The Australian Medical Association (AMA) is at the forefront of discussions relating to workforce solutions and non-medical prescribing. The AMA holds concerns with non-medical prescribing, which is when healthcare professionals — such as pharmacists and nurses, for example — who are not medical practitioners prescribe prescription-only medicines to patients.
