The dismal science returns: How do you make GLP-1 RAs worth taxpayers’ money?
There are many wondrous things about GLP-1 receptor agonists, not least their capacity to cripple health budgets. Given the scale of obesity and its economic…
Tag: PBS
Vulval psoriasis can go unrecognised for over a decade: Aussie study
Women with psoriasis should be proactively screened for genital symptoms, dermatologists suggest, after a study found an 11-year lag between symptom onset and diagnosis of…
Empagliflozin PBS listing expanded to patients with high CV risk regardless of HbA1c level
Patients with type 2 diabetes at high risk of cardiovascular events now have access to PBS-funded empagliflozin, whatever their HbA1c levels. The new PBS listing…
60-day prescribing uptake only 30%, analysis finds
GPs used 60-day prescribing for fewer than 30% of eligible scripts in the policy’s first year, analysis of PBS data has found. The Federal Government…
Medicare’s magical number factory: Why do bureaucrats trust doctors to save lives but not prescribe?
“Who are these people?” I wondered after I hung up the phone with ‘Charlene’ from the authority line. She had a cheerful voice and was,…
Pharmacy prescribing made permanent in Queensland despite just 62 pharmacists finishing their training
Pharmacist prescribing of S4 drugs for impetigo, reflux and obesity is becoming a permanent part of the health system despite a lack of evaluation. Queensland…
Nurses target PBS funding for when they start prescribing S4 and S8 drugs later this year
Nursing groups are already bidding for PBS subsidies after health ministers decided to let RNs prescribe S4 and S8 drugs, starting this year. In an…
Doctors making four million calls to the authority script line every year — but how many requests are rejected?
Doctors are making more than four million phone calls a year to the PBS authority script line despite the vast majority of requests being ticked…
Hundreds of doctors sent warnings for prescribing semaglutide on PBS to patients without diabetes
Health officials have started a mass letter mail-out to doctors they suspect are using the PBS to prescribe subsidised semaglutide to patients without diabetes. Without…
PBAC wants nurse practitioners to initiate PBS medicines
Restrictions on nurse practitioners initiating PBS medicines should be scrapped with few exceptions, the PBAC has recommended. For nurse practitioners with PBS prescribing rights, most…
