The Victoria branch of the
Australian Medical Association
(AMA) is calling on the Victorian
government to adopt the Electronic
Recording and Reporting of
Controlled Drugs (ERRCD) system.
The SA branch wrote to SA health
minister Jack Snelling in September,
urging him to implement the
system and saying the license to
use it had been provided to all
jurisdictions.
The AMA said adoption of the
system would arm doctors and
pharmacists with information
around historic dispensing in real
time, Pulse+IT reported.
“This system would enable
doctors and pharmacists to know if
a person has received prescriptions
from other places,” AMA Victoria
president Stephen Parnis said.
“It will reduce the risk of doctor
shopping, it will reduce the harms
that occur from these drugs and it
will save many lives.
“We call on the government to
act now so that in their May 2014
budget, real funds are allocated in
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