New scheduling processes
May 17, 2010
THE Secretary of the Department
of Health and Ageing will become
the ultimate decision-maker on
scheduling of medicines and
chemicals in Australia, under
changes to processes confirmed
today by the Therapeutic Goods
Administration.
The changes have already been
foreshadowed, and will become
effective 01 July this year.
The current decision-maker, the
National Drugs and Poisons
Schedule Committee (NDPSC), will
be replaced by the Secretary of the
Department of Health or her
delegate - who will be advised in
deliberations by two new expert
advisory committees - the Advisory
Committee on Medicines
Scheduling, and the Advisory
Committee on Chemicals
Scheduling.
A single Secretariat will support
both committees to “ensure
ongoing consistency and
cohesiveness of processes and
decisions,” and the changes also
include closer integration of the
revised scheduling arrangements
with existing Commonwealth
evaluation and product registration
schemes.
The current Poisons Standard
(SUSDB) will be renamed the
Standard for the Uniform
Scheduling of Medicines and
Poisons (SUSMP), and the TGA
also confirmed that cost recovery
arrangements for scheduling are
under consideration.
“The changes aim to improve the
efficiency and timeliness of
scheduling decisions, while
maintaining the existing high level
of scheduling uniformity across
Australian states and territories,”
according to a statement on the
TGA website.
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