Your doctor will write a prescription for the medication you need to end your life.

A prescription:

• is a document from your doctor
• tells a pharmacist which medication to give you.

A pharmacist is a person who:

• works at a pharmacy
• gives you medicine.

Your doctor will send your prescription to the NSW Voluntary Assisted Dying Pharmacy Service.

In this guide we just call them the Pharmacy Service.

The Pharmacy Service is a group of pharmacists who:

• supply voluntary assisted dying medication

• support people to use voluntary assisted dying medication.

A pharmacist will check the prescription.

You don’t need to do anything for this step.