The government has announced it will establish a database that provides a complete picture of a patient's medicines history. At the moment, this information is only available for high-risk medications. Also good news in the first year of the Shingrix vaccine rollout to protect against the painful shingles virus. And a Cochrane review casts doubt on the use of medicinal cannabis for chronic nerve pain. ReferencesFirst step towards a national medicines recordNational medicines database promised after telehealth 'doctor-shopping' leads to overdoseUptake of Shingrix vaccine in its first year on the National Immunisation Program: an analysis of Australian Immunisation Register dataCannabis‐based medicines for chronic neuropathic pain in adults

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