{"id":9692,"date":"2025-09-09T10:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9692\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T10:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T10:39:08","slug":"state-govt-exploring-whether-pharmacists-should-prescribe-flu-antivirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/9692\/","title":{"rendered":"State Govt &#8216;exploring&#8217; whether pharmacists should prescribe flu antivirals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NSW Government could let pharmacists prescribe S4 antivirals for influenza, having already locked in pharmacist diagnosis and treatment of impetigo, shingles, dermatitis and psoriasis.<\/p>\n<p>Despite not expecting to receive an evaluation report until 2026, NSW Premier Chris Minns announced on Friday that a 12-month pilot of pharmacists treating skin conditions with S4 drugs would become business as usual (see medicines list below).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important part of our work to build a fairer system for the people of NSW, removing red tape and making it much simpler to access medications,\u201d Mr Minns said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy enabling pharmacists to help manage common conditions, we are increasing access to care and relieving pressure on our GPs and the public hospital system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"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":"The NSW Government could let pharmacists prescribe S4 antivirals for influenza, having already locked in pharmacist diagnosis and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[10146,1698,10147,1523,103,61,2757,10148,60,371,43,10149,10150,10151,10152,1358,10153,10154,10155],"class_list":["post-9692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-antiviral","tag-dermatology","tag-general-practice","tag-government","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-influenza-flu","tag-ireland","tag-medication","tag-news","tag-nsw","tag-pharmacist-prescribing","tag-pharmacists","tag-pharmacology","tag-pharmacy","tag-pharmacy-guild-of-australia","tag-pharmacy-pilot","tag-prescribing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}