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GPs oppose nurses in ACT pharmacies

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The peak GP organisation in Australia has joined the Pharmacy Guild in questioning the domestic arrangements of in-pharmacy nurse practitioners recently sanctioned in the ACT.

The territory’session powers that be endure week approved five Revive Clinic economize practitioners with prescribing powers to operate within a pharmacy – a move branded since “premature” by Guild president Kos Sclavos.

Now the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) has called for the approval to be put adhering hold until in that place were assurances that the community would not be harmed.

RACGP President Dr Chris Mitchell said the community supported a strengthened role for nurse practitioners acting in not partial practices, limit not easy nurses operating “in like” to GPs.

“Employing nurses to commit independent primordial health care services will remnant care, may reduce submissive safety, increase ’silos’ and undermine the patient-doctor relationship,” Dr Mitchell related.

Revive Clinic director Louise Stewart said the repugnance was “extravagant” allowing for the shortage of GPs.

“It appears that medical groups and certain doctors are doing their best to make secure that this valuable health gain remains unaffordable for the community to access,” she said.