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Changing the guidelines
Pension assets changes may affect pharmaceutical access for thousands, but bureaucrats say intent is to provide other subsidies Changes to the aged pension assets test will see around 90,000 retirees …
Drugs program a success
Hep C program success “extraordinary”, Senate committee hears, but no mention of cost to pharmacy However, there is no mention of the issue of the cost of supplying and stocking …
Recognise supply chain blood and cuts
How price cuts impact the supply chain, by Bruce Annabel and Mal Scrymgeour The 1 October price cuts were a much less bloody affair than many had imagined. The reasons …
Pharmacists in demand
“I want pharmacists in my general practice” Health Minister tells parliament as government lauds its PBS record Health Minister Sussan Ley has told Federal Parliament she is a strong supporter …
Locals sign petition for their pharmacy to be approved for PBS
Locals from the outer Newcastle suburb of Fletcher have signed a petition to have their only pharmacy, the Your Chemist Shop Fletcher, approved as a PBS pharmacy. Currently the pharmacy …
Business bites: blood and cuts
How do PBS price cuts resemble the impact of a particularly nasty shave? And how can you minimise the damage? Bruce Annabel & Mal Scrymgeour explain Shaving cuts are a …
Should more new OCPs be PBS-listed?
Family Planning NSW says the current situation is locking out lower-income women from accessing the right medication Dr Deborah Bateson said last week that choice of oral contraception is limited …
Going down
What impact will the 1 October PBS cuts have on the 20 most commonly prescribed medicines? Pharmacy is gearing up for the 1 October round of PBS price cuts. As …
Savings bonanza
What’s being targeted in the 1 October PBS price cuts? More than 2,000 medicine brands will be reduced in price for non-concessional patients in the 1 October wave of PBS …
Medicines: the state of the nation
Slight drop in pharmacy-based adverse event reports as prescription statistics give a view of Australia’s medicine usage The latest data from the PBS Australian Statistics on Medicine 2015 report, released …
The benefit of buying in bulk
Should pharmacists be offering advice to chronically ill patients to use bulk non-PBS prescriptions? The cost burden of PBS medicines is such that prescribers and pharmacists should consider making chronically …
Labor government calls for PBS listing of Truvada
The Federal government needs to stop delaying and make antiretroviral drugs accessible, it says Victoria’s Minister for Health, Jill Hennessy, this week launched a new pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) study called …