Protecting veterinarians’ access to compounded veterinary medicines for emergency use

Couldn't agree more

WE are in rural Australia and medication can take some weeks to arrive. Emergency medication on the shelf is quite literally a life saver for some of my clients.

Loosing access to compounding medication will cause negative impact on welfare of companion animal. Compounding anxiety medication are often used to manage stress relating vet visit and hospital stay.

These drugs need to be available immediately when required.

Please

Rural locations already suffer significant delays in supply of some medications. Not being able to have emergency supplies of certain medications on hand , will inevitably result in adverse outcomes for affected animals requiring such medication. Supply by prescription at the time will result in delayed treatment and in some cases the death of the affected animal

Compounded medicines are essential alternatives for patients for whom particular formulations or pharmacy equivalents are not appropriate.

This is extremely important for adequate patient care.

Access to emergency use compounded medications is critical for vets

So many times we need to reach for emergency compounded medicines. Especially anxiolytic s Animal welfare will be compromised if this ability is withheld

Access to emergency use compounded medications is important for vets

This will impact so many of our patients on a daily basis for emergency and pain relief prescription. Especially as they cost so much to compound. We can't wait 10days for these medications to be prescribed to an individual, nor can clients afford the full cost of purchasing separately in the current financial crisis.

It is important that Veterinarians have access to compounded medications for in clinic use for animals that present to us in distress/display fearful or anxious behaviour not only for the welfare of the animals presenting to us, but for our own health and safety of being injured.

It is absolutely essential that Veterinarians have access to a full range of compounded medications for in clinic use to those animals that present to us in distress and require specific medication that is not available in wholesale form

This is very important to be able to have off label drugs available. We use such drugs as other registered drugs do not work. As a Veterinarian our prime concern is the welfare of our patients. Many more animals have fear based anxiety, having tailored made drugs to treat this is very important for our patients and team members.

Being able to access compounded medications has been vital to saving and improving the lives of animals over the last 20 years. It has been a huge step forward to improve the care for animals. Prohibiting the use of these medications will set the veterinary professions ability to treat animals back at least 10 years. Please don’t do this.

Veterinarians are trying to help their patients, but the government is making things harder and harder for vets.

Access to medications such as Trazadone & Gabapentin suspension is vital for the safe & humane care of our patients . Veterinary access to compounded medications is clearly a completely separate issue to human prescribing & should be treated as such.

Some drugs available only as compounded medications are life saving. We need ongoing access to them so we van dispense them quickly.

As a veterinarian that regularly works with animals with mental health conditions, there are several medications and formulations that are not able to to be dosed because of tablet size or lack of medication formulation that are suitable for animal patients. Some of these patients need immediate treatment and cannot wait several weeks for a medication to be compounded for them specifically. It is necessary to be able to dispense small amounts of medication for treatment to cover this time. We do this by using medications that are compounded for emergency use. Prohibiting this means delaying treatment that will cause significant distress and harm to patients and their owners, if not the wider public. I strongly encourage the NSW government to reconsider this decision.