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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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2024
Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits - 1 December 2024
1 December 2024 - The December 2024 issue of the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits is out and now in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2024
Agenda for the March 2025 PBAC meeting (version 1)
28 November 2024 - The agenda for the March 2025 PBAC meeting is now available. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2024
Life changing endometriosis treatment now cheaper
1 December 2024 - For the first time in three decades, women living with endometriosis will now have access to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2024
Voters clamour for affordable health in election lead-up
30 November 2024 - Threats and delays to affordable medicine access underscore an appetite for higher health spending, with polling placing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Nov 2024
Update from the PBAC (November 2024)
28 November 2024 - An update from the Chair and Deputy Chair of the PBAC is now available. ...