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The breakthrough cancer, mental health and arthritis medicines that will never be subsidised
19 October 2019 - News Corporation's national health reported claims that cancer, mental health and arthritis drugs approved for the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Oct 2019
Health Minister Greg Hunt promises to speed up drug subsidy approvals
15 October 2019 - Health Minister Greg Hunt has promised to slash red tape from the process of approving new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Oct 2019
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee responds to criticism
15 October 2019 - Chair Andrew Wilson told newsGP suggestions of delayed approvals are nothing new and Australia has one of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Oct 2019
PBS drug listings being delayed by bureaucracy, medicines lobby says
15 October 2019 - The head of the powerful medicines lobby says Australians are being forced to wait longer to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Oct 2019
Pay pharmacists to improve our health, not just supply medicines
10 October 2019 - When you have a medicine dispensed at your local pharmacy under the PBS, two things happen. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Oct 2019
Doctors welcome ban on repeat antibiotics
10 October 2019 - Medicos have welcomed the federal government's seriously considering a ban of automatic repeat prescriptions of antibiotics. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2019
Prescription opioid dispensing in Australian children and adolescents: a national population-based study
8 October 2019 - There are few population-based studies of paediatric opioid use. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2019
Patients face return trips to doctor under proposed ban on antibiotic repeat prescriptions
9 October 2019 - A ban on repeat prescriptions for antibiotics could be just weeks away, according to Australia's chief ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2019
Aussies to be denied repeat prescriptions for common antibiotics
8 October 2019 - Health Minister Greg Hunt has welcomed a move that would abolish repeat prescriptions for a range of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2019
War on superbugs to end repeat scripts
7 October 2019 - Doctors will be prevented from prescribing repeat prescriptions of antibiotics after the committee that advises the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Oct 2019
Recommendations made by the PBAC - August 2019 intracycle meeting
4 October 2019 - The recommendations from the August 2019 PBAC intracycle meeting are now available and have been updated. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Oct 2019
Update of PBS forms and procedure guidance for listing medicines on the PBS
3 October 2019 - The Procedure Guidance for listing medicines on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme was updated on 3 October ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2019
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 October 2019 update
1 October 2019 - The October 2019 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2019
1 October 2019 price disclosure confirmed prices
30 September 2019 - Confirmed 1 October 2019 prices resulting from the 2019 October Cycle of Price Disclosure have now been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2019
Interview with David Koch on Channel 7's Sunrise
30 September 2019 - The Minister talks about changes to the PBS to give more than half a million Australians cheaper ...