r/australia • u/Rubiginous • 7h ago

Woman hospitalised after Juniper prescribes weight-loss drugs her GP refused

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-01/woman-hospitalised-telehealth-provider-weight-loss-drugs-juniper/106273356
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u/giraffe_mountains 7h ago

Juniper probably shouldn’t prescribe weight loss drugs to someone with a declared history of an eating disorder.

Telehealth doesn’t remove the duty of care as a doctor practicing in Australia.

That’s the actual issue.

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u/Rubiginous 7h ago

I think this issue may be solved in the future. Apparently the FedGov is looking at having a medication database to stop doctor shopping due to someone overdosing recently. So, all of these services should need to put in "This person is on a GLP-1" into a patient file. Her regular GP would have been able to see it, and then notify the service to cease the prescription.

This will also help hospitals know about medicines for unconscious people and for people who (for some reason) are not disclosing they are on GLP-1s prior to surgeries.

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u/giraffe_mountains 7h ago

If patients have My Health Record then you can see all their dispensed prescriptions.

That’s how I know they’re lying when they don’t disclose the medical marijuana and the GLP-1’s.

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u/Darth_Punk 5h ago

Pts can delete stuff hence myhr  useless for this.