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Expanding Authority to Prescribe Medications

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The manufacture, quality, licensing, possession, sale, dispensing, prescribing and administrating of medicines is regulated by a number of federal, state and territory laws.

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The right to prescribe Schedule 4 and Schedule 8 medicines is governed by specific rules within state and territory legislation and has traditionally been assigned to doctors, vestiary surgeons and dentists. However, there is an increasing trend for other healthcare practitioners to be authorised to prescribe medicines - albeit in limited circumstances - in order to improve client access to healthcare.

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Linda Starr
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Dr Linda Starr (PhD) is an associate professor in the College of Nursing and Health Sciences at Flinders University. She also has extensive experience as a registered nurse and is the South Australian practitioner member on the National Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Linda is passionate about the intersection between healthcare and the law, with a particular focus on the mandatory reporting of elder abuse.
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