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Voters clamour for affordable health in election lead-up
30 November 2024 - Threats and delays to affordable medicine access underscore an appetite for higher health spending, with polling placing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Nov 2024
Pharmas allege Government communication breakdown in medicine deferral crisis
10 November 2024 - Labor has failed to plan for the consequences of delaying drug subsidies and left hundreds of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Nov 2024
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2024
Medicine access debacle deepens with invoices for delayed services
5 November 2024 - Pharmaceutical companies whose medicines have been indefinitely delayed are being charged $200,000 per application despite no services ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Sep 2024
New medicines could be PBS listed in just four weeks under a proposal the health minister calls 'visionary'
11 September 2024 - Have you ever had to wait for an important and expensive medicine to be subsidised? ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Sep 2024
HTA review outlines First Nations, pediatric reform and quick, cheap medicine
10 September 2024 - A Government review of Australia’s systems for accessing medicine has said it could slash waiting times ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Aug 2024
Most expensive treatments remain out of reach without health reform
18 August 2024 - Patients are waiting nearly 600 days to access medicines to which the Therapeutic Goods Administration has ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Jul 2024
Updates to the HTA Policy and Methods Review
10 July 2024 - The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Policy and Methods Review concluded on 4 May 2024. The HTA ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Apr 2024
Publication of Stage 1 and Stage 2 PBS Process Improvements metrics report for 2022-23
19 April 2024 - The 2022-23 Stage 1 and Stage 2 PBS process improvements metrics report is now available on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Apr 2024
Updates to the HTA Policy and Methods Review Reference Committee (15 April 2024)
15 April 2024 - The HTA Review Reference Committee is finalising its report and recommendations to the Australian Government having ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Dec 2023
Medicines lobby says the PBS has not kept up with advances — or approvals — in medicines
8 December 2023 - Little Jack Roche was five weeks old when diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. The medication that could help ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2023
Updates to the HTA Policy and Methods Review Reference Committee (1 December 2023)
1 December 2023 - To ensure that the Reference Committee has sufficient time to consider the extensive and valuable input ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2023
New frontier will lead to better health outcomes
30 November 2023 - The Government has today tabled its response to an inquiry considering how to give Australian patients timely ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2023
Publication of stage 1 and stage 2 PBS process improvements metrics report (2021-22)
21 April 2023 - The 2021-22 Stage 1 and Stage 2 PBS process improvements metrics report is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2023
Price of a life: Australians wait two years longer for breakthrough medicines than US citizens
16 April 2023 - Australians are waiting two years longer to access new lifesaving subsidised medicines because of pharma giants. Now, ...