19AAWriting prescriptions—medication chart prescriptions

#### 19AA Writing prescriptions—medication chart prescriptions Writing prescription by completing section of medication chart (1) A PBS prescriber writes a prescription (a medication chart prescription) for a pharmaceutical benefit in accordance with this regulation if: (a) the person for whom the pharmaceutical benefit is prescribed is receiving treatment in or at: (i) a residential care service at which the person is receiving residential care; or (ii) an approved hospital; and (b) the PBS prescriber completes a section of a medication chart for the person in relation to the pharmaceutical benefit in accordance with: (i) subregulation (2); and (ii) if the prescription would be an authority prescription—subregulation (3). Completing section of medication chart—general (2) A PBS prescriber completes a section of a medication chart in accordance with this subregulation for a person (the patient) in relation to a pharmaceutical benefit if: (a) the PBS prescriber writes in the section of the chart: (i) particulars sufficient to identify the pharmaceutical benefit; 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 “PBS” or “RPBS”; and (b) the chart contains the following information: (i) the PBS prescriber’s full name, address and PBS prescriber number; (ii) the patient’s full name; (iii) the name of the residential care service or approved hospital in or at which the patient is receiving treatment; (iv) if the patient is receiving treatment in or at a residential care service—the Residential Aged Care Service ID for the residential care service; (v) if the patient is receiving treatment in or at an approved hospital—the patient’s address; and (c) the PBS prescriber writes his or her signature: (i) in the section of the chart; and (ii) except in the case of an electronic prescription—on the cover page of the chart; and (d) the section of the chart does not provide for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit to more than one person; and (e) the section of the chart is not completed using a computer program that operates, or may operate, to indicate on a prescription by default, for subsection 103(2A) of the Act, that only the brand of pharmaceutical benefit specified in the prescription is to be supplied; and (f) if the patient is receiving treatment in or at an approved hospital—the chart specifies the day on which the chart’s period of validity ends under subregulation 21A(3A), which must be the last day of one of the following periods starting on the day the first prescription for a pharmaceutical benefit is written in the chart: (i) 1 month; (ii) 4 months; (iii) 12 months; and (g) if the patient is receiving treatment in or at a residential care service—the pharmaceutical benefit is not mentioned in Schedule 8 to the current Poisons Standard (within the meaning of the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989); and (h) in any case—the section of the chart is completed before the end of the chart’s period of validity under subregulation 21A(3) or (3A). > Note: A section in a medication chart may set out fields that only need to have information filled in if the information is relevant to the particular prescription concerned. > Note: Example: For paragraph (f), the first prescription is written in a medication chart on 11 June in a particular year. The day specified in the chart as the day on which the chart’s period of validity ends must be 10 July or 10 October in that year, or 10 June in the following year. Completing section of medication chart—authority prescriptions (3) A PBS prescriber completes a section of a medication chart in accordance with this subregulation for a person for the purpose of writing an authority prescription if the section of the chart contains: (a) each streamlined authority code (if any) that is part of the circumstances determined under paragraph 85(7)(b) of the Act for the pharmaceutical benefit that apply in relation to the writing of the prescription; and (b) each streamlined authority code (if any) that is part of the conditions determined under subsection 85A(2A) of the Act for the pharmaceutical benefit that apply in relation to the writing of the prescription; and (c) if the person is receiving treatment in or at a hospital—each authority approval number (if any) allotted by the Minister or Chief Executive Medicare for the prescription. Medication charts (4) A medication chart is a chart in a form (if any) approved under subregulation (5) that is used for prescribing, and recording the administration of, pharmaceutical benefits to persons receiving treatment in or at a residential care service or a hospital, whether or not the chart: (a) is used for any other purpose; or (b) contains any other information. > Note: For paragraph (a), the chart may also be used (for example) to prescribe, and record the administration of, drugs, medicines and other substances that are not pharmaceutical benefits. (5) The Secretary may, in writing, approve one or more forms for the purposes of subregulation (4), including one or more forms for the purpose of writing an electronic prescription.