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Health Technology Assessment Consumer Consultative Committee March 2019 meeting communiqué
20 May 2019 - A communiqué from the March 2019 meeting of the HTA Consumer Consultative Committee has been published. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 May 2019
PBS Pharmaceuticals in Hospitals Review
20 May 2019 - The Department of Health completed the PBS Pharmaceuticals in Hospitals Review to better understand how PBS medicines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 May 2019
Australians want cheaper medicines quicker
20 May 2019 - Just last week, an 18-year-old woman with a rare cancer was staring down the barrel of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 May 2019
Health technology assessment challenges in oncology: 20 years of Value in Health
16 May 2019 - Oncology treatments have changed from chemotherapies to targeted therapies and more recently immuno-oncology. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 May 2019
A $1 discount on prescription medicines is under threat
16 May 2019 - Australians are likely to pay more for prescription medicines no matter who wins the election on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 May 2019
Analysis of sponsor hearings on PBAC decision making
14 May 2019 - Original research conducted by Melinda Flowers, Sean Lybrand and myself has been published on-line in the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 May 2019
Australia's GBMA launches hub for biosimilar education
13 May 2019 - In 2018, the Generic Biosimilar Medicines Association was awarded the Biosimilar Education Grant by the Australian government ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2019
Speed up cancer funding, ALP told
11 May 2019 - The head of Australian drug company Specialised Therapeutics, Carlo Montagner, has warned that Bill Shorten’s cancer ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2019
PBS summary of changes for 1 June 2019
10 May 2019 - The Prime Minister has announced an 18 May 2019 federal election and as such, the Department ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 May 2019
What do transformational shifts mean in terms of ultimate outcomes and ‘value’ of medicines?
9 May 2019 - Emerging ‘one-time’ curative therapies create important new options for patients living with difficult and incurable health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 May 2019
Cancer specialists ‘won’t increase’ fees under Labor plan
9 May 2019 - Australia’s cancer doctors have rejected Scott Morrison’s claims they will charge patients higher fees under Labor’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2019
Health funds want to raise a tax penalty to force you to buy their products
4 May 2019 - A $900 plus tax penalty to force the rich to buy private health insurance is now ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2019
Private cover is the canary in the coal mine for whole health system
30 April 2019 - The Grattan Institute's Stephen Duckett argues that private health cover is in a "death spiral" of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2019
Tens of millions in secret cuts to subsidised medicines
2 May 2019 - Patients who need medicines when they are discharged from hospital could be waiting around for hours ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 May 2019
Labor will not rule out scrapping $6 billion health insurance rebate
2 May 2019 - Labor health spokeswoman Catherine King has refused to rule out scrapping $6 billion-a-year worth of health ...