Pharmacists to get prescription powers in NSW ‘game-changer’ trial that GPs call ‘madness’

The NSW premier, Dominic Perrottet, said allowing pharmacies to prescribe vaccinations and other medications would mean better access to healthcare

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New South Wales residents will soon be able to get vaccinations and some treatments prescribed at their local chemist, in a move a doctors' group has slammed as madness".

It mirrors a similar trial under way in Queensland, and practices in other countries such as the UK and Canada.

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