11BWriting prescriptions—medication chart prescriptions

11B  Writing prescriptions—medication chart prescriptions

Writing prescription by completing section of medication chart

 (1) A MPBS prescriber writes a prescription (a medication chart prescription) for a Pharmaceutical benefit in accordance with this section if:

 (a) the person for whom the Pharmaceutical benefit is prescribed is receiving treatment in or at:

 (i) a residential care service; or

 (ii) an approved hospital; and

 (b) the MPBS prescriber completes a section of a medication chart for the person in relation to the Pharmaceutical benefit in accordance with

 (i) subsection (3) and

 (ii) if the prescription would be an authority prescription other than an authority prescription referred to in subsection (4A) – subsection (4).

 (2) A reference in the Scheme to a prescription, or a medication chart prescription, includes a reference to the completed section of the chart by which a medication chart prescription was written.

Completing section of medication chart—general

 (3) An MPBS prescriber completes a section of a medication chart in accordance with this subsection for a person (the patient) in relation to a Pharmaceutical benefit if:

 (a) the MPBS prescriber writes in the section of the chart:

 (i) particulars to identify the Pharmaceutical benefit in accordance with subsection (3A); and

 (ii) the date on which the Pharmaceutical benefit is prescribed; and

 (iii) the Pharmaceutical benefit’s dose, frequency of administration and route of administration; and

 (iv) the letters ‘RPBS’ or ‘MPBS’ or ‘DVA’; and

 (b) the chart contains the following information:

 (i) the MPBS prescriber’s full name, address and PBS prescriber number (if a PBS prescriber);

 (ii) the patient’s full name;

 (iii) the patient’s medicare number;

 (iv) the number of any entitlement card or concession card held by the patient;

 (v) if the patient is a concessional beneficiary or the dependant of a concessional beneficiary – the number of any card issued by the Commonwealth and held by the concessional beneficiary that is evidence that the patient is entitled to receive the Pharmaceutical benefit on terms appropriate for the supply of the benefit to a patient of that kind;

 (vi) the name of the residential care service or approved hospital in or at which the patient is receiving treatment;

 (vii) if the patient is receiving treatment in or at a residential care service—the Residential Aged Care Service ID for the residential care service;