Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L00376:reg:11a:p3
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2015L00376
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 11A (pt 3/5)
Character Range: 46983–49845

MPBS prescriber's full name, address and PBS prescriber number (if a PBS prescriber);

          (ii) the patient's full name;

          (iii) the patient's medicare number;

           (iv) the number of any entitlement card or concession card held by the patient;

           (v) if the patient is a concessional beneficiary or the dependant of a concessional beneficiary – the number of any card issued by the Commonwealth and held by the concessional beneficiary that is evidence that the patient is entitled to receive the Pharmaceutical benefit on terms appropriate for the supply of the benefit to a patient of that kind;

            (vi) the name of the residential care service or approved hospital in or at which the patient is receiving treatment;

            (vii) if the patient is receiving treatment in or at a residential care service—the Residential Aged Care Service ID for the residential care service;

             (viii) if the patient is receiving treatment in or at an approved hospital—the patient's address and;

 (c) the MPBS prescriber writes his or her signature:
 (i) in the section of the chart; and
 (ii) except in the case of an electronic prescription—on the cover page of the chart; and
             (d)  the section of the chart does not provide for the  supply of a Pharmaceutical benefit to more                             than one person; and
          (e) the section of the chart is not completed using a computer program that operates, or may operate, to indicate on a prescription by default, for subsection 103(2A) of the National Health Act 1953, that only the brand of Pharmaceutical benefit specified in the prescription is to be supplied; and
         (f)  if the patient is receiving treatment in or at an approved hospital—the chart specifies the day on which the chart's period of validity ends under subsection 16AA(3A), which must be the last day of one of the following periods starting on the day the first prescription for a Pharmaceutical benefit is written in the chart:
  (i) 1 month;
  (ii) 4 months;
  (iii) 12 months; and
          (g) in any case—the section of the chart is completed before the end of the chart's period of validity under subsection 16AA(3) or (3A).

            Note: A section in a medication chart may set out fields that only need to have information filled in if the information is relevant to the particular prescription concerned.

            Example: For paragraph (f), the first prescription is written in a medication chart on 11 June in a particular year. The day specified in the chart as the day on which the chart's period of validity ends must be 10 July or 10 October in that year, or 10 June in the following year.

         Completing section of medication chart—authority prescriptions

         (4) An MPBS prescriber completes a section of a medication