PBAC Public Summary Documents - November 2014

Additional Public Summary Documents (PSDs) from the November 2014 Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee meeting are now available on the PBS website. The links ...

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Public Summary Documents from the November 2013 PBAC meeting (rejections)

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The final round of Public Summary Documents from the July 2013 PBAC meeting have been added to MAESTrO Australia

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Ireland passes reference pricing, pro-generics law

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$75 million for new medicine subsidies

The Abbott Government today announced a further $75 million commitment to list three new drugs on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme ...

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Public Summary Documents from the November 2013 PBAC meeting

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Updated price disclosure guidelines (July 2014) and cycles table are now available

Updated PBS Price Disclosure Arrangements Procedural and Operational Guidelines are available on the Price Disclosure (SPD) page of the PBS website.  A Cycles Table, ...

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Health Minister Sussan Ley's retreat on higher medicine charges to put $1b hole in budget

Little more than a week after its second budget, the Abbott government has made its first strategic retreat by abandoning a plan ...

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Higher drug prices will boost development of personalised medicine, says new report

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An audience with new NICE Chairman David Haslam

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Review of Life Saving Drugs Programme

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Relevant additions and changes from the 1 June 2014 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits have been added to MAESTrO Australia

1 Jun 2014 -The following additions and changes have been added to MAESTrO Australia: ...

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Medicine prices will rise by up to $5 a script from January next year

Medicine prices will rise by up to $5 a script from January next year as the government announced spending cuts to ...

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Cancer patients denied 30 medicines available overseas

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Government urged to work more closely with cancer community

The Cancer Drugs Alliance has welcomed tonight’s announcement in the Federal Government Budget, that it will invest $1.6bn in listing new ...

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