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 him isn’t available on the PBS for children under six. So he waits.
Australia’s medicines lobby is calling for an overhaul of the PBS, with the head of the organisation saying it takes far too long for new, and potentially lifesaving drugs, to be approved and subsidised.
