07
March
2018
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22:18
Asia/Singapore

Experienced public healthcare sector pharmacists, nurses to be allowed to prescribe medicines from July

Experienced pharmacists and advanced practice nurses from the public healthcare sector will be allowed to prescribe medicines from July 2018. One of the two safeguards that the Ministry of Health will put in place would be that only staff who have completed the Collaborative Prescribing Programme organised by NUS will be allowed to perform the tasks.