Pharmacy Daily | No more PBS measures

Medicines Partnership of Australia (MPA) has said that no further Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) savings measures are justified in the Federal Budget. The MPA said it assumed the upcoming budget would not contain further changes to price disclosure, but that it was clear the government was looking at PBS co-payment and safety net levels, and concessional PBS co-payments. It needed to recognise that medicines were an important investment in better health care for all Australians and that PBS medicines along with professional advice and support kept people alive and out of hospital. “If changes to PBS co-payment levels and eligibility are not intelligently managed with a strong commitment to professionally supported medication adherence and management, there is a great risk that sick, elderly and less welloff Australians will be discouraged from taking their medicines.”

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