AP stands for Approved Prescriber, and as outlined by the TGA:
Any Australian registered medical practitioner can become an AP.
The TGA is able to grant a medical practitioner authority to prescribe a specified unapproved medicinal cannabis product for particular indications to a class of patients in their immediate care.
To become an AP, a medical practitioner must obtain approval from a Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) or endorsement from an appropriate specialist college to prescribe the product.
Prescribers do not need HREC approval or specialist college endorsement if the selected medicine's active ingredient category, dosage form and indication is included in the TGA's List of medicinal cannabis medicines with established history of use.
APs do not need to notify the TGA each time they prescribe medicinal cannabis products during the approval period (up to 5 years).
APs must report the number of patients they treat every 6 months, even if the number is zero.
Please note, your Authorised Prescriber will have acces to their current AP documentation, and we will request this from them as needed (this is not documentation that Patients will have access to). During your consultations, you may like to enquire with your Doctor as to if they are an SAS or AP pathway prescriber for medicinal cannabis.