New Aged Care Complaints Commissioner gets to work
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Australia’s ‘independent’ Aged Care Complaints Commissioner starts work this week, to handle and investigate any complaint relating to a Commonwealth subsidised residential or home-based aged care service. Supported by a team of 150 people in multiple sites across the country, Ms Rae Lamb has assumed powers for dealing with aged c...
Discount PBS Prescriptions Start Jan 1
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Today marks the start of landmark competition reforms in the medicines sector, whereby pharmacists are able to discount the cost of a prescription subsidised through the Government’s Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for the first time. Minister for Health Sussan Ley announced today consumers could now access discounts of up to $1 on every PBS-s...
ACCC Panadol Osteo
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I have asked my Department to urgently alert the ACCC to plans by the makers of Panadol Osteo to increase their price by 50 per cent on January 1 2016. There are no obvious market changes that justify such a substantial increase. This includes changes to the listing of a small number (15 per cent) of over-the-counter medicines on the Pharmaceutical...
Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC)
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The PBAC agenda for March includes many important new drugs. To improve the consumer input into the PBAC process and noting consumer and patient groups’ comments and concerns to the Committee, the PBAC held its first consumer hearings earlier this week. Consumer groups for Hepatitis C, melanoma, chronic lymphoma and inflammatory bowel disease...
HALYARD HEALTH AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITED
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HALYARD Recognises Infection Prevention Champions in the Annual HAI Watchdog* Awards
The HALYARD HAI WATCHDOG* Awards Program recognises the efforts of dedicated healthcare facilities for their work to reduce and prevent Healthcare-associated Infections (HAIs) through staff and patient education and the use of best practices among clinicians. He...
More children will finally have access to a Type 1 Diabetes Insulin Pump - Dutton
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20 October 2013
The federal Minister for Health, the Hon Peter Dutton, today announced funding to help children with Type 1 Diabetes gain access to an insulin pump to help them manage their disease. “Although the former Labor government announced, in a blaze of publicity, funding to subsidise more insulin pumps for these childre...
