Digital signatures do not constitute a legal signature for the purposes of prescribing.  If you require a compounded medication for the treatment of a specific animal you must follow the requirements for writing prescriptions.

General requirements for handwritten prescriptions are available from the NSW Health publication Guide to Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Legislation for Veterinary Practitioners.

Further information on computer generated prescriptions is available from the NSW Health publication Criteria for Issuing Non-Handwritten (Computer Generated) Prescriptions.

All veterinarians must appreciate the difference between ordering and supplying S4 and S8 medications from a veterinary wholesaler and writing prescriptions to be filled by a pharmacy, including a compounding pharmacy, and supplied to a client.

Non-veterinary staff are not permitted to provide instructions to a compounding pharmacy.