AMA calls for two months of medicines to be dispensed from a single script

Australian Medical Association

12 February 2023 - The Federal Government must show leadership and implement the recommendations of the independent PBAC to increase the maximum dispensed quantities on selected PBS items from one month’s supply to two months’ supply.

Australian Medical Association President Professor Steve Robson said while the committee’s recommendations were normally uniformly adopted, strangely, the recommendations — made by the independent body of experts — had been shelved.

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