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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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2025
Australia’s PBS faces heat from Trump’s new drug pricing deal
2 December 2025 - Britain has agreed to pay 25% more for new medicines to escape Donald Trump’s pharmaceutical tariffs ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Nov 2025
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 December 2025
1 December 2025 - The December 2025 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Nov 2025
Government considers new PBS fund to slash wait times for treatments
29 November 2025 - The Albanese Government could introduce a new health fund by the next federal budget to bankroll ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Nov 2025
US pharma ramps up attack on Australia’s ‘discriminatory’ drug pricing
20 November 2025 - The US pharmaceutical industry is increasing pressure on Donald Trump to take action against the PBS, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Nov 2025
Agenda for the March 2026 PBAC meeting (19 November 2025)
19 November 2025 - The agenda for the March 2026 PBAC meeting is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Nov 2025
Outcome statement - DUSC October 2025 meeting
14 November 2025 - The outcome statement from the October 2025 DUSC meeting is now available. ...