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Some welcome medicine
Budget backs Minister’s APP comments on seeking a solution to pharmacy’s high-cost medicine dilemma The 2018-19 Federal Budget, delivered last night by Treasurer Scott Morrison is headlined for pharmacy by …
New combo therapy to be listed
A new combination therapy for type 2 diabetes, which can be prescribed alongside metformin, is set to be listed on the PBS from 1 April Glyxambi, a new oral, fixed-dose …
PrEP listing brings HIV goal closer
Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is to be listed on the PBS from 1 April, Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced The preventative medicine tenofovir disoproxil fumarate with emtricitabine, or Truvada, is …
A softer cut
Price disclosure changes not as bad as they seem on paper: experts The latest listed changes to the PBS represent a ‘watering down’ of previous heavy discounts, say experts as …
Prices to nosedive
Cuts from 6CPA-linked price disclosure changes starting to take effect The 1 April price disclosure cuts will see the impact of measures that were included in the PBS Access and Sustainability …
Continued dispensing or conditional dispensing?
Why can’t pharmacists directly access the PBS for their patients? wonders Angelo Pricolo Many times we have heard various people, organisations or even other governments talk about the Australian Pharmaceutical …
Location rules locked in
“Certainty and stability” ensured, Guild believes as bill passes both houses The National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits – Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2017 has now passed through the Senate, …
A bright new day
Guild welcomes removal of location rules sunset clause as PBS bill passes lower house The amended PBS bill, to which a number of Sixth Community Pharmacy Agreement-linked initiatives were tied, …
PBS faces decade of negative real growth
The Guild’s prediction that the $18.9 billion figure in the 6CPA would not be delivered has come true, executive director David Quilty says Writing in this week’s edition of Forefront, …
Cutting deeply
Information released on next wave of price disclosure cuts, as the potential impact of a new PBS bill is revealed The latest round of price disclosure cuts – to be …
Australia’s 10 most expensive drugs
Expensive medicines used to treat hepatitis C have cost the government more than any other drugs over the past year New figures based on PBS and RPBS scripts for the …
Push for pharmacist recall remuneration
The Guild has outlined some of its concerns about red tape in a submission to the Senate Inquiry on the issue The inquiry Committee is examining the red-tape effect on …