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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 January 2026
1 January 2026 - The January 2026 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Dec 2025
PBS Expenditure and Prescriptions Report (2024-25)
22 December 2025 - The PBS Expenditure and Prescriptions Report 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Dec 2025
Millions need New Year medicines price cut
24 December 2025 - New data reveals Australians are still faced with the tough choice of skipping or rationing medicines—due ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Dec 2025
Public Summary Documents – September 2025 PBAC meeting
24 December 2025 - The Public Summary Documents (positive recommendations) from the September 2025 PBAC meeting are now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2025
Two new treatments recommended for people with breast cancer
19 December 2025 - Breast Cancer Network Australia welcomes the PBAC's recommendation to subsidise two important medicines on the PBS: Veoza ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2025
Weight loss drug Wegovy close to PBS approval
19 December 2025 - New medicines are revolutionising the management of serious medical conditions. Now a recommendation has been made about ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Dec 2025
Recommendations made by the PBAC - November 2025
19 December 2025 - Recommendations made by the PBAC in November 2025 relating to the listing of medicines on the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2025
Update from the PBAC (December 2025)
18 December 2025 - The final PBAC update for 2025 is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Dec 2025
PBAC weight loss drug decision imminent
12 December 2025 - Patients are spending as much as $5,000/year on private market GLP-1 therapies – an incoming PBAC recommendation ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2025
PBS safe, government vows after US-UK medicines deal to increase spending revealed
8 December 2025 - The Federal Government has vowed the PBS is not up for negotiation after it was revealed ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Dec 2025
Agenda for the December 2025 PBAC meeting
5 December 2025 - The agenda for the December 2025 PBAC meeting is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Dec 2025
Cheaper multiple sclerosis and rare cancer medicines now on PBS
4 December 2025 - Australians living with multiple sclerosis and rare cancers will now have access to life-changing medicines thanks ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2025
DUSC utilisation analysis public release documents (June 2025)
3 December 2025 - The utilisation analysis public release documents from the June 2025 DUSC meeting are now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2025
Australia in talks with US over Trump demands to pay more for medicine
2 December 2025 - Australia is talking to the Trump administration and global drug companies about the United States’ push ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2025
New hope for rare cancer patients as first immunotherapy treatment subsidised
3 December 2025 - An immunotherapy treatment for a potentially disfiguring form of head and neck cancer has been added to ...