Medical professionals have criticised the Victorian government’s new election promise to permit pharmacists in the Australian state to prescribe antibiotics and refill prescriptions due to the risks of increasing antibiotic resistance and misdiagnoses.
In a recent re-election pitch, Premier Daniel Andrews announced that the Labor government would spend $19 million (US$12.8 million) on a 12-month pilot project that grants local pharmacists the ability to treat minor health conditions if it won the election.
