Active Ingredient Prescribing

Active ingredient prescribing (AIP) is part of a wider government initiative to ensure the safe prescribing and dispensing of prescription medicines. Learn more about the program and why it is important on the Health.gov.au website Active Ingredient Prescribing. 

Additional Information for PBS software vendors 

• LEMI with PBS Item Codes (PDF 128KB) - (Excel 49KB)
• High level List of Medicines for Brand Consideration (LMBC) May 2026 (PDF 217KB) - (Excel 26KB)
• Software Vendor Resource Document v2.3 (PDF 497KB) - (Word 149KB)