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PBS expenditure and prescriptions report - 2016-17
20 December 2017 - The PBS expenditure and prescriptions report for 2016-17 is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2017
'Drugs are too expensive for the NHS – and people are paying with their lives’
20 December 2017 - Don’t blame the NHS for denying vital medication, say members of a new activist group, Just Treatment. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2017
NICE turns down rare skin disease implant
20 December 2017 - The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has rejected Clinuvel UK’s afamelanotide for treating erythropoietic ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2017
Takeda’s Ninlaro approved for NHS use via Cancer Drugs Fund
20 December 2017 - Patients in England and Wales will now be able to access Takeda’s myeloma treatment Ninlaro on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2017
Nusinersen: 'amazing' spinal muscular atrophy drug rejected for Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
20 December 2017 - They were hoping for an early Christmas present, but instead the families of children with spinal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2017
Decision to fund cetuximab for head and neck cancer
20 December 2017 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce our decision to fund cetuximab (Erbitux) from 1 February 2018 for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2017
Post-market review of ezetimibe - final report
20 December 2017 - The final report for the post-market review of ezetimibe and PBAC recommendations for the post-market review of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2017
Agenda for the March 2018 PBAC meeting
20 December 2017 - The agenda for the March 2018 PBAC meeting is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Dec 2017
Report urges transparency in health system
19 December 2017 - Individual doctors' fees should be available in a searchable database, according to a recommendation of a Senate ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2017
Melissa’s battle hurts
17 December 2017 - Residents urged to pressure government to help Vernon woman gain access to life-saving medication. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2017
CHF supports Healthy people, healthy systems
18 December 2017 - The Consumers Health Forum welcomes the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association’s blueprint for a national health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Dec 2017
Not so anonymous: Medicare data can be used to identify individual patients, researchers say
18 December 2017 - Researchers say they can identify individuals in government healthcare data that was supposed to be anonymous, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Dec 2017
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee recommendations in Australia
16 December 2017 - The aim of this study was to examine submissions made to the PBAC and assess whether the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Dec 2017
Recommendations made by the PBAC - November 2017
15 December 2017 - The recommendations from the November 2017 PBAC meeting are now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Dec 2017
Report on the collection of under co-payment data 2016-17
14 December 2017 - From 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017, approximately 85 million under co-payment prescriptions were supplied ...