{"id":548240,"date":"2026-03-18T11:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548240\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T11:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T11:39:21","slug":"gp-prescribing-for-adhd-what-are-the-rules-across-australia-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/548240\/","title":{"rendered":"GP prescribing for ADHD \u2014 what are the rules across Australia now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, the Federal Government backed nationally consistent prescribing rules for ADHD, a key recommendation from a 2023 Senate inquiry report.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, most states and territories have pressed ahead with their own reforms, which have generally given GPs more power to prescribe for and diagnose the condition.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what they are doing.<\/p>\n<p>Training<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"d-none message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, the Federal Government backed nationally consistent prescribing rules for ADHD, a key recommendation from a 2023&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2670,64,63,44],"class_list":["post-548240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-adhd","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}