Recommendations made by the PBAC – November 2024

20 December 2024 - Recommendations made by the PBAC in November 2024 relating to the listing of medicines on the PBS ...

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New agreement to ensure medicines stay cheaper and on pharmacy shelves

19 December 2024 - The Australian Government is ensuring medicines stay cheaper and on pharmacy shelves across Australia, through a new ...

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Agenda for the May 2025 PBAC meeting

18 December 2024 - The agenda for the May 2025 PBAC meeting is now available. ...

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Securing cheaper medicines for people with severe eczema

14 December 2024 - The Australian Government has ensured thousands of Australians living with severe eczema will continue to have ...

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Deal struck to secure place of eczema drug on PBS

13 December 2024 - Health Minister Mark Butler has struck a deal to secure the place of a “life-changing” eczema ...

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Moderna’s mRNA vaccines to be exempted from advisory committee scrutiny under $2 billion Morrison era deal

10 December 2024 - Critics say exemption ‘deeply concerning’ and risks creating separate assessment systems. ...

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2023-24 financial results for cost recovery activities for listing medicines on the PBS and designated vaccines on the NIP

4 December 2024 - The PBS and NIP Cost Recovery Implementation Statement has been updated to include 2023-24 end of ...

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Agenda for the December 2024 PBAC intracycle meeting

6 December 2024 - The agenda for the December 2024 PBAC intracycle meeting is now available. ...

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Jessica Lawrence’s meds cost her family $75k a year because they’re not listed on the PBS

6 November 2024 - Medications that are subsidised for cancer sufferers are critical to Jess Lawrence’s wellbeing, but because the 25-year-old ...

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HTA Policy and Methods Review update

3 December 2024 - The Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Mark Butler MP has announced the Implementation Advisory ...

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Update on the March 2025 meeting

28 November 2024 - As announced by the Minister on 6 November 2024, to process the unprecedented number of submissions for ...

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Changes to the PBS listings for Opdualag and Vyxeos

1 December 2024 - As of 1 December 2024, combination chemotherapy medicines, Opdualag and Vyxeos, will be transitioned from the Highly ...

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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 December 2024

1 December 2024 - The December 2024 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...

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Agenda for the March 2025 PBAC meeting (version 1)

28 November 2024 - The agenda for the March 2025 PBAC meeting is now available. ...

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Life changing endometriosis treatment now cheaper

1 December 2024 - For the first time in three decades, women living with endometriosis will now have access to ...

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