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1 December 2024 - The December 2024 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...

1 December 2024 - For the first time in three decades, women living with endometriosis will now have access to ...

30 November 2024 - Threats and delays to affordable medicine access underscore an appetite for higher health spending, with polling placing ...

28 November 2024 - An update from the Chair and Deputy Chair of the PBAC is now available. ...

20 November 2024 - Australians with osteoporosis, a type of skin lymphoma, spinal muscular atrophy and type 2 diabetes will ...

14 November 2024 - The objective was to describe the type of evidence and the clinical benefit of cancer medicines ...

15 November 2024 - The outcome statement from the October 2024 DUSC meeting is now available. ...

15 November 2024 - The Public Summary Documents (first time decisions not to recommend and deferrals) from the July 2024 PBAC ...

10 November 2024 - Labor has failed to plan for the consequences of delaying drug subsidies and left hundreds of ...

8 November 2024 - Fears of on-going delays to critical new medicine subsidies have been stoked by a Health Department ...

6 November 2024 - The Albanese Government is ensuring patients get access to life changing medications and treatments as quickly ...

6 November 2024 - Health Minister Mark Butler has directed the PBAC to hold an unprecedented extra meeting, after the ...

5 November 2024 - Pharmaceutical companies whose medicines have been indefinitely delayed are being charged $200,000 per application despite no services ...

4 November 2024 - Federal Health Minister Mark Butler has proposed an emergency meeting of the government’s independent drug subsidy ...