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Review of the Life Saving Drugs Program - final report and Government response
28 January 2018 - After nearly 4 years and 3 health ministers, the final report and Government's response to the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jan 2018
Early benefit assessments: the 220th dossier evaluation completed at the turn of the year
18 January 2018 - Oncology remains by far the most common indication. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2018
How Ottawa's using a fake drug crisis to force through damaging pharmaceutical policy
16 January 2018 - There is no affordability crisis to justify expanding drug price regulation, or a new national government-run pharmacare ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jan 2018
In a nutshell 2017: new issue with facts and graphics from the IQWiG
15 January 2018 - Third issue with focus on quality assurance/numerous graphs illustrate work results. ...
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 03 Nov 2017
NHS patients to get faster access to 'breakthrough' medicines
3 November 2017 - Drug firms will be offered a fast-track route to get “breakthrough” medicines to NHS patients up ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Oct 2017
Hunt puts best foot forward on health but we’ll need to monitor developments
13 October 2017 - Health Minister Greg Hunt today unveiled the most significant reforms to private health funds in recent ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Oct 2017
Major reforms to make private health insurance simpler and more affordable
13 October 2017 - The Australian Government has announced a wide ranging package of reforms to make private health insurance simpler ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Oct 2017
Time for a change in how new antibiotics are reimbursed: development of an insurance framework for funding new antibiotics based on a policy of risk mitigation
9 October 2017 - Healthcare systems depend on the availability of new antibiotics. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Oct 2017
The health system is still awaiting modernisation
4 October 2017 - Five decades on from an important speech about fixing Australia’s healthcare system, better policy is still ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Oct 2017
Revised procedure for advance notification of pending CDR submissions and resubmissions
28 September 2017 - In September 2016, CADTH updated the advance notification procedure for the Common Drug Review. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Sep 2017
Introduction of mandatory arrangements for PBS Efficient Funding of Chemotherapy claims
5 September 2017 - From 1 December 2017, approved suppliers will be required to enter a compounder ID when submitting ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Aug 2017
Find common ground on health: Roxon
1 September 2017 - Former health minister Nicola Roxon has warned that Australia’s healthcare leaders need to find common ground ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Aug 2017
Health Minister hears consumer case for health reform
23 August 2017 - Healthcare consumers have today put the case to Health Minister, Greg Hunt, for his National Health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2017
Proposed revisions to CADTH’s biosimilar review process
1 August 2017 - Given the type of data required to support biosimilar authorization differs from that required for a biologic ...