sec.127Dispensing diversion-risk medicine

sec.127 Dispensing diversion-risk medicine

This section applies in relation to a written prescription for a diversion-risk medicine. A dispenser must take all reasonable steps to ensure the named prescriber on the prescription is genuinely the prescriber of the diversion-risk medicine. The dispenser is taken to comply with subsection (2) if— the dispenser is familiar with information on the prescription identifying the named prescriber to the dispenser; or the dispenser contacts the named prescriber and confirms the prescription was made by the named prescriber. Subsection (5) applies if the diversion-risk medicine is also a monitored medicine. The dispenser is taken to comply with subsection (2) if the dispenser checks the monitored medicines database and information in the database indicates the medicine was prescribed by the named prescriber. In this section— named prescriber , on a prescription, means the person named as prescribing the medicine on the prescription. (sec.127-ssec.1) This section applies in relation to a written prescription for a diversion-risk medicine. (sec.127-ssec.2) A dispenser must take all reasonable steps to ensure the named prescriber on the prescription is genuinely the prescriber of the diversion-risk medicine. (sec.127-ssec.3) The dispenser is taken to comply with subsection (2) if— the dispenser is familiar with information on the prescription identifying the named prescriber to the dispenser; or the dispenser contacts the named prescriber and confirms the prescription was made by the named prescriber. (sec.127-ssec.4) Subsection (5) applies if the diversion-risk medicine is also a monitored medicine. (sec.127-ssec.5) The dispenser is taken to comply with subsection (2) if the dispenser checks the monitored medicines database and information in the database indicates the medicine was prescribed by the named prescriber. (sec.127-ssec.6) In this section— named prescriber , on a prescription, means the person named as prescribing the medicine on the prescription.

• (a) the dispenser is familiar with information on the prescription identifying the named prescriber to the dispenser; or
• (b) the dispenser contacts the named prescriber and confirms the prescription was made by the named prescriber.