March 2018

News

In this issue

Adding Own Brand Drugs to Fred Dispense

The Own Brand Drug file is a limitless database where you can store and maintain a list of private items that you regularly dispense, but are not included or maintained in the Monthly Fred Dispense Drug Update.

Drugs that are set up in the Own Brand Drug file appear along with other drugs when searched. They are flagged as PRIVATE within the drug selection screen.

For details, see Add an Own Brand Drug.

Own Brand items can only be dispensed as Private.

This Month's PBS Changes

For the full Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits, go to the PBS website at http://www.pbs.gov.au/ where you can search the schedule by drug name.

For your convenience, we've also uploaded a printable summary of this month's important PBS changes to this site:

View the PBS Summary of Changes

Running the monthly update for Fred Dispense

Download the update procedure Checklist