Veterans’ Affairs (Extending Medication Chart Prescribing to Hospitals and Other Measures) Instrument 2015
11AWriting of prescriptions-prescriptions other than medication chart prescriptions
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11A Writing of prescriptions-prescriptions other than medication chart prescriptions
(1) An RPBS prescriber writes a prescription in accordance with this Scheme if the RPBS prescriber :
(a) prepares the prescription:
(i) in duplicate, by handwriting the prescription in ink on a prescription form:
(A) that is as nearly as practicable 18 centimetres long by 12 centimetres wide; and
(B) on which appears the name and address of the RPBS prescriber and, subject to subsection (4), the letters ‘RPBS’(or ‘DVA’); and
(C) on the original of which appear the words ‘pharmacist/patient copy’; and
(D) on the duplicate of which appear the words ‘Medicare Australia/DVA copy’; or
(ii) in duplicate, by means of a computer on a prescription form:
(A) that is as nearly as practicable 18 centimetres long by 12 centimetres wide; and
(B) on which appears the name and address of the RPBS prescriber and, subject to subsection (4), the letters ‘RPBS’ (or ‘DVA’); and
(C) on the original of which appear the words ‘pharmacist/patient copy’; and
(D) on the duplicate of which appear the words ‘Medicare Australia/DVA copy’; and
(E) that is approved in writing for the purpose by the Secretary (as defined in the National Health Act 1953); or
(iia) by means of a form:
(A) on which appear the name and address of the RPBS prescriber and the letters ‘RPBS’ (or ‘DVA’); and
(B) that is approved in writing by the Secretary (as defined in the National Health Act 1953) for the purpose of writing an electronic prescription; or
(iii) by another method approved in writing by the Secretary (as defined in the National Health Act 1953); and
(b) signs the prescription after it is prepared; and
(c) for an authority prescription—writes on it that prior approval has been obtained (if the case); and
(d) specifies on the prescription the date on which the prescription is written; and
(e) for a Authorised Midwife or Authorised Nurse Practitioner—states in the prescription the number allotted to his or her approval under regulation 8A of the National Health Act 1953; and
(f) states in the prescription the name of the person for whom the Pharmaceutical benefit is to be supplied and the address of that person; and
(g) identifies in the prescription the Pharmaceutical benefit by such particulars as are necessary to identify the Pharmaceutical benefit; and
(h) states in the prescription:
(i) the quantity or number of units of the Pharmaceutical benefit to be supplied; and
(ii) if the supply of the benefit is to be repeated—the number of times it is to be repeated; and
(i) if the Pharmaceutical benefit to be supplied is not a ready‑prepared pharmaceutical benefit (as defined in the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960)—indicates in the prescription the manner in which the Pharmaceutical benefit is to be administered.
(2) A prescription written in accordance with this section must not provide for the supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit to:
(a) a person if the RPBS prescriber has written, on the same day, another prescription for the supply of the same or an equivalent Pharmaceutical benefit to the person; or
(b) more than 1 person.
(3) For subparagraphs (1)(a)(ii), (iia) and (iii), a prescription must not be prepared using a computer program that operates, or may operate, to indicate on a prescription by default, for the purpose of subsection 103(2A) of the National Health Act 1953, that only the brand of Pharmaceutical benefit specified in the prescription is to be supplied.
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Writing prescription by completing section of medication chart
(1) An RPBS 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 at which the person is receiving residential care; or
(ii) an approved hospital; and
(b) the RPBS 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 – 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 RPBS 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 RPBS 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 ‘RPBS’ or ‘DVA’; and
(b) the chart contains the following information:
(i) the RPBS 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;
(viii) if the patient is receiving treatment in or at an approved hospital—the patient’s address and;
(c) the RPBS 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 National Health Act 1953, 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 subsection 16AA(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) in any case—the section of the chart is completed before the end of the chart’s period of validity under subsection 16AA(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.
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
(4) An RPBS prescriber completes a section of a medication chart in accordance with this subsection for a person for the purpose of writing an authority prescription if the section of the chart contains:
(a) the authority prescription number (if one is given); and
(b) one of the following:
(i) a note that Prior Approval for the prescription has been obtained;
(ii) in any case—the streamlined authority code that is part of the circumstances determined under paragraph 85(7)(b) of the National Health Act 1953 for the Pharmaceutical benefit;
(iii) in any case—the streamlined authority code that is part of the conditions determined under subsection 85A(2A) of the National Health Act 1953 for the Pharmaceutical benefit.
(5) Subparagraphs (4)(b) (ii) and (iii) do not apply to authority prescriptions that have been authorised in accordance with authority required procedures that are incorporated by reference into the circumstances determined for a Pharmaceutical benefit under subsection 85B(4) of the National Health Act 1953.
Note: If a streamlined authority code or an authority approval number must be written on an authority prescription, and the code or number is not written on the authority prescription, the special patient contribution mentioned in subsection 85B(4) of the National Health Act 1953 may not be payable by the Commonwealth: see subsection 85B(5) of that Act.
Medication charts
(6) A medication chart is a chart in a form (if any) approved under subsection (7) 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.
(7) The form of a medication chart is approved if the Secretary (as defined in the National Health Act 1953) has approved it.