Public Summary Documents from the November 2013 PBAC meeting

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Updated price disclosure guidelines (July 2014) and cycles table are now available

Updated PBS Price Disclosure Arrangements Procedural and Operational Guidelines are available on the Price Disclosure (SPD) page of the PBS website.  A Cycles Table, ...

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Health Minister Sussan Ley's retreat on higher medicine charges to put $1b hole in budget

Little more than a week after its second budget, the Abbott government has made its first strategic retreat by abandoning a plan ...

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Higher drug prices will boost development of personalised medicine, says new report

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An audience with new NICE Chairman David Haslam

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Review of Life Saving Drugs Programme

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Relevant additions and changes from the 1 June 2014 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits have been added to MAESTrO Australia

1 Jun 2014 -The following additions and changes have been added to MAESTrO Australia: ...

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Medicine prices will rise by up to $5 a script from January next year

Medicine prices will rise by up to $5 a script from January next year as the government announced spending cuts to ...

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Cancer patients denied 30 medicines available overseas

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Government urged to work more closely with cancer community

The Cancer Drugs Alliance has welcomed tonight’s announcement in the Federal Government Budget, that it will invest $1.6bn in listing new ...

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Submissions published for review of authority required PBS listings

Public submissions to the post-market review of authority required PBS listings closed on Wednesday, 8 October 2014. The public submissions ...

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Pharmacy agreement offers pills with a sugar coating

The new pharmacy agreement means consumers overall will pay billions of dollars more for prescribed medicines over the next five ...

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PBAC stakeholder meeting - Nitisinone for tyrosinaemia type 1 (February 2015)

A stakeholder meeting was held on 4 February 2015 to discuss issues related to a recent submission to the PBAC ...

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The Age - Judge refuses to approve Vioxx settlement

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Germany's Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) has issued its final benefit assessment report for Pixuvri (pixantrone)

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