Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00671:reg:8
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00671
Segment Type: reg
Provision Reference: reg 8
Character Range: 6761–8125

8  Method of prescribing pharmaceutical benefits

      (1) An authorised prescriber for a pharmaceutical benefit may write a prescription for supply of the pharmaceutical benefit to an eligible private hospital patient or eligible public hospital patient under this Special Arrangement by completing a section of a medication chart, in accordance with section 41 of the Regulations as modified by this section, that also directs the special arrangement supply of a dose of a chemotherapy drug or of a related pharmaceutical benefit to the patient under the National Health (Efficient Funding of Chemotherapy) Special Arrangement 2024.

      (2) A medication chart referred to in subsection (1):

         (a) is not required to be in a form approved under paragraph 41(5)(a) of the Regulations or meet the information requirements approved under paragraph 41(5)(b) of the Regulations; and

         (b) is taken to be a medication chart for the purposes of the Regulations despite paragraphs 41(4)(a) and (b) of the Regulations.

      (3) For an electronic medication chart prescription:

         (a) paragraph 41(2)(c) of the Regulations does not apply; and

         (b) the authorised prescriber must approve the prescription in the electronic system used to write the prescription; and

         (c) paragraph 104(3)(b) of the Regulations does not apply.