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Supply a factor in restricting COVID vaccines for babies and toddlers
3 August 2022 - Most parents of babies and toddlers will not be able to access a COVID vaccine approved ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2022
Changes to PBS listing of hydromorphone oral solution
1 August 2022 - Changes to the PBS listing of hydromorphone hydrochloride 1 mg/mL oral solution (473 mL) are being ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2022
‘Increasing problem’: Australia facing shortages of more than 320 medicines
21 July 2022 - More than 320 items are becoming hard to find as Australia faces increasing shortages in a crucial ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jun 2022
Update to continued dispensing arrangements
30 June 2022 - From 1 July 2022, on-going continued dispensing arrangements have been expanded to include additional medicines groups to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Feb 2022
Pharmacist substitution of PBS medicines without a prescription during shortages (Serious Scarcity Substitution Instrument) - 8 February 2022
8 February 2022 - From 8 February 2022, abatacept syringe (Orencia) and abatacept auto-injector (Orencia ClickJect) can be interchangeably substituted ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jan 2022
Novavax COVID-19 vaccine to be available in coming weeks
24 January 2022 - Australians aged 18+ will now have access to a fourth COVID-19 vaccine, Nuvaxovid (Novavax) in coming weeks, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2022
Pharmacists struggle to meet demand for free COVID test kits amid stock shortage
23 January 2022 - Chemists across the country say they do not have enough rapid antigen tests to start handing ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Dec 2021
Extension to image based prescription special arrangement
22 December 2021 - The Department of Health has extended the ‘image based prescription’ interim measure which allows the supply of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2021
Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme continued dispensing arrangements
5 November 2021 - The Australian Government has extended the Continued Dispensing emergency arrangements until 30 June 2022, when they ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Oct 2021
PBS arrangements for tocilizumab shortage – 1 November 2021
29 October 2021 - In response to the shortages of multiple presentations of tocilizumab (Actemra) products, the PBAC has recommended temporary ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Oct 2021
Tasmania's Pharmacy Guild wants antiviral COVID-19 pills available in all pharmacies
20 October 2021 - Tasmania has a stockpile of two different antiviral pill products which are sitting in the Royal ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Oct 2021
Australia secures additional COVID-19 treatments
17 October 2021 - The Australian Government has secured access to two additional COVID-19 treatments to support the National Plan to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Oct 2021
Pharmacists opt out of third shot as doses of vaccine set to expire
14 October 2021 - The rollout of third doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to thousands of immunocompromised people has been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Sep 2021
Four million Pfizer doses arrive to super-charge vaccine roll out
6 September 2021 - Four million extra Pfizer-BioNTech (Pfizer) vaccine doses will begin arriving in Australia in days following a historic ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2021
Australia secures one million Pfizer doses from Poland, with more than half destined for Sydney
15 August 2021 - Poland has come to Australia’s rescue with an extra one million Pfizer doses after the government went ...