Useful resources

 The following websites will provide you with additional information relevant to your needs and circumstance

• Australian Community Pharmacy Authority
• Federal Register of Legislation National Health Act 1953
• Department of Health, Disability and Ageing
• Services Australia
• Department of Veterans’ Affairs
• Framework for the introduction of a Managed Entry Scheme for submissions to the PBAC
• Glossary of Terms to accompany the Guidelines for preparing submissions to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee
• Guidelines for Deeds of Agreement for the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (Version 1.3)
• Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Website - Australian Government HTA processes used to inform decisions about the registration of health technologies for use in Australia, and reimbursement under Australian Government funding programs.
• Impact of the PBS Reform - Report to the Parliament on the impact of PBS reform on Government expenditure, consumers, industry, pharmacy, wholesalers and prescribers.
• Independent Review (PBS)
• Independent Review of the Impact of PBS Cost Recovery
• Joint Medicines Policy Conference Outcomes - 2008
• Joint Medicines Policy Conference presentations - 2011
• Manner of Administration that are currently in use by the PBS
• Manual of resource items and their associated unit costs - December 2016 - for use in submissions to the PBAC involving economic evaluation
• Medical Services Advisory Committee (MSAC)
• Memorandum of Understanding with Medicines Australia - documents the key innovations and reforms that will be introduced to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme over the next four years.
• National Medicines Policy
• PBAC Guidelines - Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee Guidelines (Version 5)
• PBAC Guidelines for Initiation of Stakeholder Meetings
• PBAC Meetings - Outcomes, agendas and Public Summary Documents from meetings of the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC)
• PBS Calendar - PBS related activities surrounding the PBAC meeting cycles
• PBS Forms that may be required by the Department of Health, Disability and Ageing to list a medicine on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.
• Quality Use of Medicines
• Quitnow
• Review of Anticoagulation Therapies in Atrial Fibrillation
• Sources of data for use in generating utilisation estimates- list of sources which are suitable for consideration as the source of data which could be used when preparing usage estimates for submissions to the PBAC
• TGA and PBAC Parallel Process and Requirements
• Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)

Palliative Care

• Care Search
• Palliative Care Australia
• Palliative Care Program

Health Professional Groups

• Australian Medical Association (AMA)
• Doctors' Reform Society (DRS)
• Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP)
• Royal Australasian College of Physicians (RACP)

Pharmaceutical Industry

• Medicines Australia
• Generic and Biosimilar Medicines Association (GBMA)

Pharmacy Organisations

• Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA)
• Pharmacy Guild of Australia (PGA)
• Society of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia (SHPA)

Other Useful Sites

• MIMS
• National Health Act 1953
• NPS: Better choices, Better health
• National Pharmaceutical Services Association

 

Other formats of the PBS Schedule can be found on the Publications page.