{"id":4172,"date":"2025-08-17T05:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4172\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T05:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T05:23:22","slug":"racgp-asks-tga-to-remove-isotretinoin-prescribing-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/4172\/","title":{"rendered":"RACGP asks TGA to remove isotretinoin prescribing restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The RACGP has lodged a TGA application to let GPs prescribe isotretinoin for moderate to severe acne or treatment-resistant rosacea.<\/p>\n<p>While an S4 drug, isotretinoin scripts are restricted to other specialists under the S4 subcategory due to its potentially severe side effects, including teratogenicity.<\/p>\n<p>However, the RACGP has advocated in different states for changes to poisons legislation to let GPs prescribe the drug.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, RACGP Queensland chair Dr Cathryn Hester said GPs were completely capable of screening patients for isotretinoin\u2019s contraindications as she called on the State Government to loosen the restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\u00d7<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSign in\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"message adg-password-reset\">\n\t\t\t\tIf this is your first visit to the new AusDoc website, reset your password<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<a class=\"adg-reset_password_link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ausdoc.com.au\/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The RACGP has lodged a TGA application to let GPs prescribe isotretinoin for moderate to severe acne or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[274],"tags":[2906,18,4555,135,19,17,462,5],"class_list":{"0":"post-4172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-dermatology","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-general-practice","11":"tag-health","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-medication","15":"tag-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}