Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2020
Simplified chemotherapy prescribing arrangements
16 September 2020 - The Department of Health has simplified the way PBS medicines can be prescribed for chemotherapy patients in public and private hospitals.
These changes are enabled through legislative amendments to the National Health (Efficient Funding of Chemotherapy) Special Arrangement 2011 and the creation of the National Health (Chemotherapy Prescribing) Special Arrangement 2020.
These changes streamline the PBS prescribing and dispensing process for chemotherapy patients during the COVID-19 pandemic. The changes will improve the supply of PBS medicines to chemotherapy patients and apply on a national basis, enabling pharmacists to operate under a uniform, consistently applied framework.
