Health officials warn of ‘practical limitations’ to medicine subsidies despite ‘triage’

8 November 2024 - Fears of on-going delays to critical new medicine subsidies have been stoked by a Health Department ...

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Additional PBAC meeting

6 November 2024 - The Albanese Government is ensuring patients get access to life changing medications and treatments as quickly ...

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Government scrambles after medicines delay outrage

6 November 2024 - Health Minister Mark Butler has directed the PBAC to hold an unprecedented extra meeting, after the ...

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Drug authority decision wipes dozens of lifesaving new medicines from pipeline

4 November 2024 - Federal Health Minister Mark Butler has proposed an emergency meeting of the government’s independent drug subsidy ...

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Last hope: why it’s costing me $20,000 a month to stay alive

4 November 2024 - It’s Jemma Juckes’ last throw of the dice as she awaits a decision on whether a new ...

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‘Brighter future’ for blood cancer patients battling rare condition

4 November 2024 - Mycosis fungoides affects three in every million Australians; for those few sufferers it is a near-constant agony ...

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‘Life changing’ multi-cancer drug funding proposal in jeopardy

3 November 2024 - Australian cancer patients dying in wait for affordable access to a life changing treatment have been dealt ...

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Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 November 2024 update

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

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Public Summary Documents – July 2024 PBAC meeting

1 November 2024 - The Public Summary Documents (positive recommendations and subsequent decisions not to recommend) from the July 2024 PBAC ...

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Process for managing the March 2025 PBAC meeting agenda

30 October 2024 - The PBAC has considered the issues arising from the current notice of intent advice of industry ...

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Submissions to the March 2025 PBAC meeting

24 October 2024 - The Department of Health and Aged Care has received notification that pharmaceutical companies plan to bring ...

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Outcomes of the September 2024 PBAC intracycle meeting

18 October 2024 - The outcomes from the September 2024 PBAC intracycle meeting are now available. ...

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Agenda for the November 2024 PBAC meeting (version 5)

11 October 2024 - Version 5 of the agenda for the November 2024 PBAC meeting is now available. ...

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Heart attack survivors find new treatment for recurrence risk

4 October 2024 - Mike Lynch was only 12 when his mother died of cardiovascular disease, in the years following he ...

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New cheaper medicines for auto-immune conditions, cancer and heart disease

8 October 2024 - Australians with types of vasculitis, leukaemia, heart disease, ulcerative colitis and arthritis now have access to ...

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