Stakeholder and patient feedback has pushed Pharmac into retaining a special program that provides funded access to medicines for children with cancer without an assessment by the controversial procurement agency.
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'I'm a big believer that we as public servants need to engage honestly with our stakeholders'
"It's really important to have a conversation with stakeholders if you can before it gets really tricky because then you have a relationship, and that relationship really matters," said Department of Health and Aged Care Secretary Blair Comley.
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Latest News Stakeholders force Pharmac backdown on move to scrap childhood cancer access program March 19, 2024
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Latest News ViiV Healthcare Australia announces recipients of 2023 Positive Action Community Grants March 19, 2024Ann Maccarrone, community engagement and partnerships manager at ViiV Healthcare Australia, said the community-led advancements in HIV care are pivotal to closing the care gap and improving the lives of people living with HIV.
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Latest News A misguided response disconnected from its own history and reality March 18, 2024The system's decision-makers must consider the long-term implications for PBS sustainability of continually imposing change. The industry can help by understanding its interlocutor and developing a credible case for policy stability.
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Latest News Where are the stewards to maintain and protect this critical public health program? March 18, 2024The government and stakeholders, as stewards, have designed and jointly implemented many positive reforms over the life of the PBS. Critical to that has been a commitment to good ideas, win-win outcomes, respect for the system and each other, and reforms that benefit patients and the system. Is any of that evident in 2024 as the system enters another period of change?
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Podcast The Week in Review Podcast - 15 March March 14, 2024The Albanese Government has committed an additional $3 billion for the new Community Pharmacy Agreement. The details are yet to come, but the statement and confirmed financial commitment reflect a Cabinet-endorsed Budget decision. Health Minister Mark Butler said he would now engage with "other stakeholders with an interest in the pharmacy sector to finalise separate arrangements". What do people think that means? We discuss that process, that the money will probably need to be found, and the underlying anger across pharmacies that has seen one group excluded from this year's APP conference.
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Latest News The fast-finishing AstraZeneca secures Pharma Cup for 2024 Kosi Challenge March 18, 2024AstraZeneca has come from behind in the final days almost to double its fundraising total and take out the Pharma Cup at this year's Rare Cancers Australia's Kosi Challenge.
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Latest News What do people think the minister means by 'finalising separate arrangements'? March 15, 2024The Cabinet could endorse additional funding for community pharmacies without requiring any offsets. Yet that would be inconsistent with history and the published operational rules for the Albanese Government's first two Budgets.
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Latest News PSA says it will continue to advocate for an expanded scope of practice March 15, 2024The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia says it welcomes the heads of agreement to sign a new Community Pharmacy Agreement as providing "certainty".
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Latest News Merck expands fertility benefit for its employees in Australia March 15, 2024The managing director of Merck Healthcare Australia, Josie Downey, welcomed the program's expansion. She said it is in addition to a range of other generous leave provisions to support aspiring parents in the workplace.
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Latest News Pharmacy Guild secures an additional $3bn in new agreement March 14, 2024The Pharmacy Guild has secured an in-principle agreement with the Albanese Government for an Eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement.
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Latest News The predictable 'sequencing' of this process is gradually being revealed March 14, 2024The most senior health department officials travelled from Canberra to the Gold Coast yesterday as pharmacies and other stakeholders prepared for the annual APP 2024 conference.
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Latest News 'We want to give back to the charity that gave so much to us in our time of need' March 14, 2024Over 650 people will start climbing Australia's highest peak tomorrow for Rare Cancers Australia's Kosi Challenge.
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Latest News New Zealand to fund pharmacists to administer childhood vaccinations March 14, 2024New Zealand will make it easier for children to be immunised with Pharmac removing a restriction so that pharmacists can claim reimbursement for certain vaccinations.
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Latest News When the minister delegates decision-making, they delegate decision-making March 13, 2024Like almost all his successors, Health Minister Mark Butler has delegated virtually all his powers over PBS decision-making to departmental officials. There appears to be a misunderstanding about the implications, and nobody should think the minister directs decision-making after delegating legal powers.
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Latest News Former Roche executive appointed to lead not-for-profit Omico March 13, 2024Omico has announced that former Roche executive Ian Black has been appointed as its new full-time chief executive officer.
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Latest News Competition regulator launches a review of Chemist Warehouse - Sigma merger March 13, 2024Australia's competition regulator has launched an inquiry into the proposed merger between pharmaceutical wholesaler Sigma and the Chemist Warehouse Group.
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Latest News Pharmacies prepare to gather in Queensland for the annual APP Conference March 13, 2024The event coincides with the negotiation of the Eighth Community Pharmacy Agreement. Health Minister Mark Butler is not scheduled to attend. It remains unclear whether any representative of the Albanese Government will speak as part of the program. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton will deliver the event's Keynote Address on Friday.
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Latest News MSD maintains 'Pharma Cup' lead with companies adding $75,000 in four days March 12, 2024MSD has maintained its spot at the top of the Pharma Cup leaderboard, with just four days until Rare Cancers Australia's Kosi Challenge. Companies have added $75,000 to their totals in the past few days.
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Australian Biotech Imricor says Paris-based CV institute grants ethics approval for VISABL-AFL trial March 11, 2024Imricor’s Chair and CEO, Steve Wedan, said, “After last week’s announcement regarding Ethics Committee approval at the CHUV in Lausanne, we are very excited to announce that the Ethics Committee at ICPS has followed so quickly."
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