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1 September 2022 updates as part of the digital transformation of authority required (written) PBS listings
19 August 2022 - From 1 September 2022, the PBS listings for certain cancer medicines will be updated as part of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Aug 2022
Restart of National Medicines Policy Review is welcome, but assurances needed over further consultation and feedback processes
18 August 2022 - Medicines Australia welcomes the restart of the National Medicines Policy Review, which was put on hold ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Aug 2022
Fears for patient safety with hundreds of medicines in short supply
17 August 2022 - Doctors and pharmacists are warning there could be serious consequences for patients if the shortage of hundreds ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Aug 2022
COVID vaccine rollout too slow, poorly planned, audit finds
17 August 2022 - An audit of Australia’s coronavirus vaccination rollout has criticised the slow speed at which early doses ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Aug 2022
Restart of the National Medicines Policy review – further consultation on a revised draft
17 August 2022 - The Department of Health and Aged Care is inviting stakeholders to provide feedback on a revised ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Aug 2022
GPs demand action to fix ‘disintegrating’ Medicare
17 August 2022 - Doctors have issued the federal government with an urgent demand for more Medicare funding, warning general ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2022
One stop shop in Medicare shake-up
16 August 2022 - Doctors may be able to spend more time with patients, treat patients after-hours, and employ nurses, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Aug 2022
Revealed: sick state of bulk-billing
15 August 2022 - Doctors expect the national bulk-billing rate may plunge to as little as 30% within two years ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2022
Patients avoid paying hundreds of dollars in out-of-pocket fees after Ramsay and Bupa end stalemate
12 August 2022 - The eleventh hour peace deal will avoid Bupa customers paying potentially hundreds of dollars in out of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2022
2022-2023 cost recovery implementation statement
12 August 2022 - The 2022-23 PBS and NIP cost recovery implementation statement is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2022
Australians forced to pay for methadone and other drugs to get off addictive PBS medication
7 August 2022 - Aussie taxpayers are subsidising addictive pain medication but not the treatments that help get patients off the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2022
Panicked patients as popular medications get wiped from pharmacy shelves
4 August 2022 - Widely used medications — including one used to treat ADHD — are missing from Australian shelves amid ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Aug 2022
Supply a factor in restricting COVID vaccines for babies and toddlers
3 August 2022 - Most parents of babies and toddlers will not be able to access a COVID vaccine approved ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Aug 2022
COVID-19 vaccination for children aged 6 months to under 5 years
3 August 2022 - The Albanese Government has accepted a recommendation from the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation to make ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2022
Listing breakthrough brings hope for people with spinal condition
1 August 2022 - Adults with debilitating spinal muscular atrophy will for the first time have access to a subsidised ...