Western Australian Consolidated Regulations

POISONS REGULATIONS 1965 - REG 38A

38A .         NIMCs for patients discharged from public hospitals to be taken to be lawful prescriptions

        (1)         In this regulation —

        NIMC means the National Inpatient Medication Chart developed by the Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care.

        (2)         An NIMC for a patient who is discharged from a public hospital is to be taken to be a prescription for a Schedule 4 poison that complies with regulation 37 for the purposes of dispensing the Schedule 4 poison at the public hospital on the discharge of the patient if —

            (a)         all the details in respect of the patient required by the NIMC have been completed; and

            (b)         a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner has completed, in ink in his or her own hand writing, all the details in respect of the Schedule 4 poison required by the NIMC; and

            (c)         a medical practitioner or nurse practitioner has written, in ink, an authorisation on the NIMC for the Schedule 4 poison to be dispensed for discharge, and dated and signed the authorisation.

        [Regulation 38A inserted in Gazette 5 Mar 2010 p. 845‑6.]

[Heading deleted in Gazette 12 Aug 2003 p. 3663.]