A new hotline is expected to fast track access to medicinal cannabis for palliative care patients in NSW.

Doctors will soon have access to the NSW Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Service to help them cut through the regulatory red tape of legally prescribing onshore medicinal cannabis for their patients.

The service will ease access to onshore medicinal cannabis products. Credit:Max Mason Hubers

From January, prescribers across the state will be able to call a hotline that connects them to experts tapped into the latest international evidence-based research in the constantly-evolving field, Health Minister Brad Hazzard announced on Thursday.

The experts will help doctors assess whether a patient might benefit from medicinal cannabis and guide their treatment decisions.