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Utilisation analysis of heart failure medicines listed on the PBS
20 December 2024 - At its September 2024 meeting, the PBAC considered a report presenting a utilisation analysis of PBS ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Dec 2024
Bureaucratic ‘deficiencies’ in medicine funding underscore access crisis
26 December 2024 - The Government’s independent medicine funding assessor, still recovering from a public failure to process months worth ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Dec 2024
PBS Expenditure and Prescriptions Report (2023-24)
19 December 2024 - The PBS Expenditure and Prescriptions Report 1 July 2023 to 30 June 2024 is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Dec 2024
Report on PBS/RPBS under co-payment prescriptions data (2023-24)
19 December 2024 - The Report on Under Co-payment Prescriptions Data (2023-24) is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Dec 2024
Public Summary Documents – September 2024 PBAC meeting
24 December 2024 - The Public Summary Documents (positive recommendations and subsequent decisions not to recommend) from the September 2024 PBAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Dec 2024
Update from the PBAC (December 2024)
23 December 2024 - An update from the Chair and Deputy Chair of the PBAC is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2024
Recommendations made by the PBAC – November 2024
20 December 2024 - Recommendations made by the PBAC in November 2024 relating to the listing of medicines on the PBS ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2024
New agreement to ensure medicines stay cheaper and on pharmacy shelves
19 December 2024 - The Australian Government is ensuring medicines stay cheaper and on pharmacy shelves across Australia, through a new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Dec 2024
Securing cheaper medicines for people with severe eczema
14 December 2024 - The Australian Government has ensured thousands of Australians living with severe eczema will continue to have ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Dec 2024
Deal struck to secure place of eczema drug on PBS
13 December 2024 - Health Minister Mark Butler has struck a deal to secure the place of a “life-changing” eczema ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Dec 2024
Agenda for the December 2024 PBAC intracycle meeting
6 December 2024 - The agenda for the December 2024 PBAC intracycle meeting is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Dec 2024
Jessica Lawrence’s meds cost her family $75k a year because they’re not listed on the PBS
6 November 2024 - Medications that are subsidised for cancer sufferers are critical to Jess Lawrence’s wellbeing, but because the 25-year-old ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2024
HTA Policy and Methods Review update
3 December 2024 - The Minister for Health and Aged Care, the Hon Mark Butler MP has announced the Implementation Advisory ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2024
Update on the March 2025 meeting
28 November 2024 - As announced by the Minister on 6 November 2024, to process the unprecedented number of submissions for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2024
Changes to the PBS listings for Opdualag and Vyxeos
1 December 2024 - As of 1 December 2024, combination chemotherapy medicines, Opdualag and Vyxeos, will be transitioned from the Highly ...