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Public consultation: draft 2025-26 cost recovery implementation statement for listing medicines on the PBS and designated vaccines on the NIP
31 January 2025 - Consultation on the draft 2025-26 cost recovery implementation statement for listing medicines on the PBS and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Feb 2025
Life-saving lung cancer drug added to PBS, slashing price from $10,000 a month to $30 per script
1 February 2025 - Australians diagnosed with a rare form of lung cancer will now have access to a life-saving ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Feb 2025
Cheaper medicine for lung cancer patients
2 February 2025 - The Australian Government is listing Retevmo (selpercatinib) on the PBS for the first time to treat advanced ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Feb 2025
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 February 2025
1 February 2025 - The February 2025 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jan 2025
Outcomes from the December 2024 PBAC meeting
31 January 2025 - Recommendations made by the PBAC in December 2024 relating to the listing of medicines on the PBS ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jan 2025
Von Hippel-Lindau disease drug Welireg listed on PBS slashing cost by $11,000 a month for patients
28 January 2025 - The treatment for Simon Goodrich’s disease has been costing $12,000 a month, but there has been a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jan 2025
Australians benefit from freeze to maximum cost of PBS medicines
20 January 2025 - The Australian Government has launched an advertising campaign to raise awareness about a freeze on the maximum ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jan 2025
Protection against RSV for mums and bubs with free vaccine available from 3 February
19 January 2025 - From 3 February 2025, Australian mums and their newborn babies will have free access to the best ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jan 2025
Price must be right to put obesity pill on the PBS
6 January 2025 - Whether to fully subsidise the new generation weight loss drugs such as Mounjaro and Ozempic for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Jan 2025
Global pharma giants push for weight loss drugs to be added to PBS
6 January 2025 - Taxpayers would fund popular weight loss drugs for people with severe obesity under a proposal from ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jan 2025
Cheaper medicines stay cheaper as Australians save $1.1 billion
2 January 2025 - On 1 January 2025, for the first time in more than 25 years, the maximum amount people ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jan 2025
New and expanded PBS listings for breast and prostate cancer
2 January 2025 - Australians with prostate and breast cancer now have affordable access to affordable new and expanded medicines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jan 2025
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 January 2025
1 January 2025 - The January 2025 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Dec 2024
Utilisation analysis of heart failure medicines listed on the PBS
20 December 2024 - At its September 2024 meeting, the PBAC considered a report presenting a utilisation analysis of PBS ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Dec 2024
Bureaucratic ‘deficiencies’ in medicine funding underscore access crisis
26 December 2024 - The Government’s independent medicine funding assessor, still recovering from a public failure to process months worth ...