Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme

Follow the links below to find information about Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme or go directly to the Department of Health and Ageing's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Homepage.

Reviewed July 2011

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Links to information about drug listings on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).

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Title:   Other supply arrangements outside the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The following page describes the drugs available through the Life Saving Drugs Program (LSDP).
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) growth hormone program
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This page contains the following downloadable PDF documents: PBS growth hormone program guidelines; Prader-Willi Syndrome guidelines; new applications: checklist for clinicians; application form for growth hormone; application form for growth hormone for the treatment of Prader-Willi Syndrome; parent/guardian information consent form.
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   PBS statistics
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to documents related to medicine use and the cost of the PBS
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   PBS
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The official online source for information on your Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
Date:   Jul 2011
Title:   Improving Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's access to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   Despite having greater morbidity and mortality than other Australians, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people underuse the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. Increasing their access to medicines could improve their health.
Date:   Apr 2011
Title:   Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Government's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) provides reliable, timely and affordable access to a wide range of medicines for all Australians.
Date:   Jan 2011
Title:   Aboriginal Health Services and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The following page contains information on improving access to essential medicines by clients of remote Aboriginal Health Services through the special PBS supply arrangements enacted under the provisions of section 100 of the National Health Act 1953.
Date:   Dec 2010
Title:   Non-medical prescribing in Australia
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   The announcement in the 2009 federal budget to allow nurse practitioners and midwives access to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) and the Medicare Benefits Scheme,1 and the subsequent announcement of a November 2010 start date,2 has brought non-medical prescribing into the public arena.
Date:   Nov 2010
Title:   Your questions to the PBAC: Rifampicin for MRSA
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   The Editorial Executive Committee requested the advice of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee on how to resolve the apparent anomaly in the PBS restrictions on the availability of rifampicin.
Date:   Oct 2010
Title:   Visitors to Australia
Publisher:   Medicare Australia
Description:   Information for visitors to Australia on access to health services through Medicare, bringing medicines into Australia, and the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Date:   Dec 2011
Title:   Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
Publisher:   Medicare Australia
Description:   The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) gives all Australian residents and eligible overseas visitors access to prescription medicine in a way that is affordable, reliable and timely.
Date:   Nov 2011
Title:   Your prescriptions (PBS)
Publisher:   Medicare Australia
Description:   Here you can find out more about the PBS, including how much you will pay
Date:   Sep 2010
Title:   What's on a PBS script?
Publisher:   National Prescribing Service
Description:   Learn how to find the information you want on your PBS prescription form.
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Weighted Average Monthly Treatment Cost (WAMTC) User's Manual and Calculator
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Weighted Average Monthly Treatment Cost (WAMTC) methodology is a type of reference pricing applied to particular groups of Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) subsidised drugs.
Date:   Mar 2010
Title:   Other supply arrangements outside the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS)
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This page contains information on supply arrangements outside the PBS which cover Lifesaving Drugs.
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   Pharmaceutical
Publisher:   Department of Veterans' Affairs
Description:   The Repatriation Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (RPBS) provides a wide range of pharmaceuticals and dressings at concession rates for the treatment of eligible veterans, war widows/widowers, and their dependants.
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   The impact of the PBS reform - Report to Parliament on the National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme) Act 2007
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The report details the impact of the various aspects of PBS reform, including the impact on Government expenditure, consumers, industry, pharmacy, wholesalers and prescribers.
Date:   Jan 2010
Title:   Making it work in your practice
Publisher:   CareSearch
Description:   Palliative care can be very successfully integrated into general practice. It is useful to be aware of Medicare and PBS items that are specifically for palliative care patients.
Date:   May 2009
Title:   12 month review of the introduction of Streamlined Authorities
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This page contains the report on the review of the first 12 months of operations of the PBS Streamlined Authorities, which were introduced to reduce the administrative burden for prescribers and allow them more time to devote to patient care.
Date:   May 2009
Title:   Expenditure and prescriptions twelve months to 30 June 2006
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Tables of prescription volumes and government costs (expenditures) under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
Date:   Apr 2009

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