October 2017
News
In this issue
| Queensland Controlled Drug Reporting Changing from Monthly to Weekly from 1 October |
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| Coming Soon: International Harmonisation of Ingredient Names |
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| This Month's PBS Changes |
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| Running the monthly update for Fred Dispense |
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Fred IT Group (@freditgroup) September 25, 2017
Queensland Controlled Drug Reporting Changing from Monthly to Weekly from 1 October
To improve the accuracy and currency of patient specific S8 prescription history available for doctors via the 13S8INFO service, pharmacists in Queensland are asked to increase the frequency of S8 dispensing reports to weekly, rather than monthly, beginning 1 October 2017.
The Medicines Regulation and Quality Unit will work with each pharmacy over the coming 2 months to assist with this transition, and reduce the impact of the more frequent reporting on pharmacists.
The media announcement of this change is available on the Queensland Government website.
For more details, please contact the Queensland Government Department of Health.
Coming Soon: International Harmonisation of Ingredient Names
Fred Dispense will soon be ready for the Therapeutic Goods Administration's program to update medicine ingredient names to their current international names.
To help you and your patients through the changeover, we are working to enable the display of original drug names alongside their new names in Fred Dispense, as well as on script labels, repeat forms, receipts, and reports.
Our plan to release IHIN compatibility in September has been delayed, as there are flow-on effects to Fred Pak. Because of this, there will be a Fred Pak release in the near future, which will enable IHIN and also deliver enhancements requested by our customers.
This Month's PBS Changes
For the full Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits, go to the PBS website at http://www.pbs.gov.au/ where you can search the schedule by drug name.
For your convenience, we've also uploaded a printable summary of this month's important PBS changes to this site: