New drug laws passed for Queensland podiatrists

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For your information, the Queensland Government has now passed new amendments to Drugs & Poisons legislation that affect registered podiatrists and surgical podiatrists in Queensland.

They new legislation can be viewed here.

In summary, this allows a greater range of local anaesthetics for general podiatrists, along with a range of S4s and one S8 for surgical podiatrists (ie analgesics, antibiotics etc).

The Podiatrists Board of Queensland will be implementing these new regulations and will require all registrants wishing to use these drugs to undertake a prescribed upskilling course before being able to adminster or prescribe these drugs.

LL

 

When is NSW going to catch up?

 

As with all changes to legislation, LOTS of work is required. The changes recently in Queensland took more than 2 years of hard work and lobbying by the Association, the Registration Board, the University and the ACPS, with a history of several years of stalling prior to then.

Unfortunately, the Drugs & Poisons laws in Australia are different in every state/territory, so it continues to be a frustrating process whereby the profession has to slog it out against the health departments and other special interest groups in each individual jurisdiction to prove the same arguments repeatedly. Time consuming and very inefficient. Perhaps national registration might assist this process, but that will remain to be seen.

We should look forward to Victoria's wider legislation coming into practical effect to give other states the precedent to lobby for similar legislation...

LL

 

LCG,

NSW has had a far greater range of availabale drug rights in the form of local anaesthesia than our northern counterparts did. I'm glad to see that their available anaesthesia rights are now falling into line with NSW - it is a very valuable tool and much needed.

Work on this has been ongoing in NSW for the past 3 years. A submission is already prepared and has been passed through APodA(NSW) and the NSW Podiatrists Registration Board.

To the best of my knowledge it has been placed in the hands of the Minister and is probably sitting on his desk somewhere.