{"id":11803,"date":"2025-09-09T13:44:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/11803\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:44:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:44:13","slug":"state-govt-exploring-whether-pharmacists-should-prescribe-flu-antivirals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/11803\/","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":11804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[14369,3531,14370,266,134,6474,14371,524,111,43,139,3655,69,14372,14373,14374,3194,14375,14376,14377],"class_list":["post-11803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-antiviral","tag-dermatology","tag-general-practice","tag-government","tag-health","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-influenza-flu","tag-medication","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nsw","tag-nz","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\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}