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Doctor’s Bag Service for GPs and Medical Practices

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Our doctor’s bag service helps GPs and medical practices keep their prescriber bag stocked with the emergency medicines listed under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). Your practice sends us an order, we prepare the items, and we send them to your clinic. Medicines go out routinely to the doctor surgeries and medical establishments we supply. The service suits practices that want a local pharmacy to restock their bag when items are used or reach their expiry date.

Below is what a doctor’s bag is, what we supply, how ordering works and how delivery works.

What Is a Doctor’s Bag (Prescriber Bag)?

Under the PBS, eligible prescribers can get a set list of emergency medicines for their doctor’s bag, now called the prescriber bag, at no charge. They can then supply those medicines free to patients in an emergency. The PBS sets which medicines, and how many of each, each type of prescriber can hold. You can check the current list on the PBS Prescriber Bag page.

What We Supply

Our order form lists more than 30 prescriber bag items. They include injectable and other emergency medicines such as:

  • Adrenaline (epinephrine) and atropine
  • Benzylpenicillin and benzathine benzylpenicillin
  • Glucagon, hydrocortisone and glyceryl trinitrate
  • Morphine, naloxone and methoxyflurane
  • Furosemide, metoclopramide and prochlorperazine
  • Salbutamol

The items you can order, and their quantities, follow the PBS prescriber bag list for your prescriber type.

How to Order Our Doctor’s Bag Service

  1. Call us on (02) 4296 5548 to set up your practice and get access to our online order form.
  2. Complete the form with the quantity of each item you need, plus your practice name, address and phone, the practitioner’s name and their prescriber number.
  3. Provide your signed PBS prescriber bag supply order form. The PBS requires the prescriber to complete and sign it, with the original and duplicate copies given to the supplying pharmacy.
  4. We prepare your order and arrange delivery to your practice.

Delivery to Your Practice

Clinics within a 30 kilometre radius of our pharmacy get free daily deliveries, including all medication and necessary materials. If your practice is further away, ask us about delivery when you call.

Other Services for Medical Practices

As a compounding pharmacy and a member of the Professional Compounding Chemists of Australia (PCCA), we prepare medicines that doctors prescribe for patients who can’t use a commercially made medicine. We also work with nursing homes and aged care facilities and with fertility clinics.

Doctor’s Bag Service FAQs

Who can use the doctor’s bag service?

Prescribers who are eligible under the PBS prescriber bag arrangements, such as GPs at medical practices. Each type of prescriber has its own list of items. If we have not supplied you before, we will confirm your registration or PBS prescriber number.

Is there a charge for prescriber bag medicines?

Items on the PBS prescriber bag list are supplied at no charge to eligible PBS prescribers, who can then supply them free to patients for emergency use.

How do I get a PBS prescriber bag order book?

Eligible prescribers can order a Prescriber Bag Supply Order Book from Services Australia through their Health Professional Online Services (HPOS) account.

How long is an order form valid?

Each PBS prescriber bag order form is valid for the month shown on the form.

Get Started

Call us on (02) 4296 5548 or visit us at 7 Munmorah Circuit, Flinders NSW 2529. We are open Monday to Friday 8am to 8pm, Saturday 9am to 6pm and Sunday 9am to 4pm.

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