Category: Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

‘Still Nothing’: Pharmacy Guild Says Australia’s Half-Price Medicine Scheme Will Add to Shortages

April 25, 2023
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The head of Australia’s pharmacy peak body has called the federal Labor government’s latest decision to subsidise medicine “smoke and mirrors” amid the ongoing cost of living crisis. Health Minister Mark Butler revealed on April 26 that the government is making “hundreds of common medicines cheaper” by allowing Australians to double the amount of medicine…

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Advocates Celebrate PBS Listing of a Rare Breast Cancer Treatment in Federal Budget

March 29, 2022
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The Breast Cancer Network Australia (BCNA) is celebrating the listing of Trodelvy, a treatment for a rare form of breast cancer on the Pharmaceutical Budget Listing (PBS) as part of the 2022/23 Federal Budget. “For the first time, this drug gives hope to many young women, extending their life expectancy and providing an opportunity to…

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New Heart Condition Drug Listed on PBS

January 30, 2021
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The federal government is subsidising a new drug for Australians suffering with a rare, fatal heart condition through Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS). From February 1, Uptravi (selexipag) will be PBS listed for the first time to treat Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH), for use in combination with existing therapies, Health Minister Greg Hunt said in a…

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