Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
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Aug- 2025 -25 AugustDementia
No PBS for new Alzheimer’s therapy
The Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee has rejected an application for a newly approved Alzheimer’s treatment to be included on the…
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11 AugustIndustry News
Labor pledges to protect PBS from cuts
Last week, President Donald Trump wrote to 17 major pharmaceutical companies in the US demanding they lower their prices for…
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Jul- 2025 -14 JulyClinical Practice
Do pharmaceutical tariffs threaten the PBS?
There are fears that, if implemented, the tariffs could cost the Australian economy up to $2.8 bn. That’s both in…
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Mar- 2025 -20 MarchPolicy & Reform
‘Major win’: Albanese promises to cap cost of PBS medications
Prescription medicines will be capped at $25 per script under a major cost-of-living election promise set to be unveiled by…
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Aug- 2023 -9 AugustIndustry News
Health Minister labels $806 medicine claim as a ‘scare to vulnerable aged care residents’
Health Minister Mark Butler has condemned the community pharmacy peak body over its latest attack on impending changes to drug dispensing…
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Oct- 2011 -4 October
Public health buffeted by free-trade winds
Australia's pharmaceutical benefits scheme is being challenged by lobbying from US industry, writes Patricia Ranald. Giant US pharmaceutical and tobacco…
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Nov- 2010 -9 November
Filling the gaps
New rights for nurse practitioners have been welcomed, but will rural health teams survive? The fact that nurse practitioners now…
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Jun- 2010 -1 June
An assurance of support for mum and bub
Federal government strikes deal to give midwives professional indemnity insurance. For the first time in more than seven years, midwives…