Safe Prescribing Episode 3: Prescribing by Proxy - when care is shared
The Medical Protection New Zealand podcastShow Notes
In modern practice we all frequently work in health care teams where other team members, who do not have prescribing rights, ask us to write scripts for patients they are seeing.
Sometimes this is for patients we have seen in the past, but sometimes it may be for a patient we don’t even know.
In this podcast we consider the medicolegal risks of prescribing when you yourself are not seeing the patient... • How can you ensure the patient has been properly informed about possible side effects? • Will you be held responsible if something goes wrong? • Am I even allowed to write a script for a patient I haven’t seen? • Has the Medical Council statement on Good prescribing managed to stay up to date with how modern teams work with allied health professionals often seeing patients, either in person or on telehealth, and employers then expecting doctors to prescribe for those patients?
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