Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Mar 2021
Building a more robust medicine supply - proposals to help prevent, mitigate and manage medicine shortages
29 March 2021 - The Therapeutic Goods Administration is conducting a public consultation seeking feedback on reforms intended to help ensure ongoing, reliable supply of important medicines in Australia.
The TGA is specifically seeking feedback on four proposals as possible medicine shortage mitigation or management strategies that would:
- prioritise the evaluation and registration process for certain important generic prescription medicines, to reduce the risk of shortages
- encourage registration of more generic versions of medicines known to be affected by shortages, to mitigate the impact of those shortages
- support a more reliable supply of overseas-registered medicines imported into Australia as substitutes when the Australian medicine is in longstanding or repeated shortage.
