Authorised Prescribers

19 January 2022

The Authorised Prescriber Scheme allows authorised medical practitioners to supply therapeutic goods (such as medicines, medical devices or biologicals) that are not included in the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG) to a class of patients with a particular medical condition.

An Authorised Prescriber can supply the product directly to specified patients under their immediate care without requiring separate approval for individual patients.

Authorised Prescribers must report the number of patients treated every 6 months. Use of the product must be reported twice yearly covering each period between 1 January to 30 June and 1 July to 31 December. Reporting through the SAS & Authorised Prescriber Online System

(link is external)

 is preferred.

To access an unapproved therapeutic good for a single patient, go to the Special Access Scheme web page.

For medicinal cannabis information, go to the Access to medicinal cannabis web page.

https://www.tga.gov.au/form/authorised-prescribers