Only about one in 10 prescriptions for psychotropic drugs currently prescribed in aged care facilities are justified, the Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety was told on Tuesday.
"In January, Minister Wyatt asked me to convene a meeting of clinical leaders from the colleges, the AMA and Parliament House and he expressed his personal distress at hearing some of the stories ... he felt that progress wasn't quick enough. And he wanted to look at regulatory options," Professor Murphy said.
The commission also heard from Dr Peter Foltyn, the Visiting Dental Officer, from St Vincent’s Hospital, who called for better oral care in residential settings, as infections caused by poor dental hygiene were often misdiagnosed as something else. He said the government spent $3 million on developing a thorough guideline for geriatric oral health in residential aged care facilities.
"My big area of concern is that oral health is not part of ACAT [Aged care assesmment] ... GPs don't know everything about the mouth," he said.
pitthen update today told it's not going to work to just single out attack GPs. that's a nonsense.
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