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Submission on Pharmacist labelling of antibiotics

Last updated 1 February 2021

Summary

Date: 27 January 2021

The RACGP has responded to the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) on the new changes to the labelling of dispensed antibiotics by pharmacists to be implemented in January 2021.

The response reiterates the required solutions to decrease antibiotic overprescribing as per the college’s original submission in September 2020.

Read the submission

RACGP submission on Pharmacist labelling of antibiotics (PDF 187 KB)

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