16AASupply of pharmaceutical benefit on basis of medication chart prescription

16AA Supply of pharmaceutical benefit on basis of medication chart prescription

(1) A Pharmaceutical benefit may only be supplied on the basis of a medication chart prescription by: (a) if the person in respect of whom the Pharmaceutical benefit is to be supplied is receiving treatment in or at a residential care service – a Community Pharmacist; or (b) if the person in respect of whom the Pharmaceutical benefit is to be supplied is receiving treatment in or at an approved hospital— a Community Pharmacist or the Approved Hospital Authority. (2) A Community Pharmacist may supply a Pharmaceutical benefit on the basis of a medication chart prescription only if: (a) the Community Pharmacist has seen: (i) the medication chart by which the prescription was written; or (ii) a copy of so much of the chart as would indicate that subsections 11B(3) and (4) (if applicable) have been complied with; and (b) the date on which the Pharmaceutical benefit is supplied is: (i) during the period of validity of the medication chart; and (ii) no later than the stop date (if any) indicated in the prescription; and (c) the Community Pharmacist writes on the medication chart or the copy of the chart, the following for the supply: (i) the Community Pharmacist’s name and any approval number under regulation 8A of the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1960; (ii) an identification number for the supply; (iii) the date on which the Pharmaceutical benefit is supplied. (3) For paragraph (2)(b), the period of validity of a medication chart for a person receiving treatment in or at a residential care service: (a) starts on the day in a calendar month (the first calendar month) when the first prescription for a Pharmaceutical benefit is written in the medication chart; and (b) ends on the last day of the third calendar month that starts after the first calendar month.

Note: Example: The first prescription is written in a medication chart on 11 June. The period of validity of the medication chart starts on 11 June and ends on 30 September.

Note: calendar month is defined in section 2B of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901.

(3A) For paragraph (2)(b), the period of validity of a medication chart for a person receiving treatment in or at a hospital: (a) starts on the day when the first prescription for a Pharmaceutical benefit is written in the chart; and (b) ends at the end of the day specified in the chart as the day on which the chart’s period of validity ends (see paragraph 11B(3)(f)). (4) A Community Pharmacist may supply up to a maximum quantity of a Pharmaceutical item or Pharmaceutical benefit more than once on the basis of a particular medication chart prescription for the Pharmaceutical benefit only if: (a) the prescription indicates that an ongoing supply of the Pharmaceutical benefit is authorised for the period of validity of the chart; or (b) the prescription indicates a stop date for the supply of the Pharmaceutical benefit and, based on the dose and frequency of administration of the Pharmaceutical benefit indicated in the prescription, more than one supply of a maximum quantity of the Pharmaceutical item or Pharmaceutical benefit is needed before the stop date is reached.