Can you imagine waiting 466 days to access an approved medicine that could save or drastically improve your life?
The Stronger PBS campaign aims to reduce the wait time to 60 days.
This is from when a new medicine is deemed safe and effective by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to when it’s made affordable and accessible for patients via the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
Our PBS has helped Australians access medicines for over 75 years.
Yet our system to subsidise these medicines hasn’t been comprehensively reviewed in 30 years.
This means doctors are not always able to prescribe the medicines you need.
