March 2025
News
In this issue
| Yaz and Yasmin PBS Listed from 1 March 2025 |
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| See you at APP! |
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| Continued Dispensing Arrangements – Emergency Measures |
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| Changing Approval Number? |
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| This Month's PBS Changes |
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Yaz and Yasmin PBS Listed from 1 March 2025
Yaz and Yasmin are listed on PBS from 1st March 2025. Patients will need to obtain a new prescription from their prescribers to access the PBS subsidised price.
Please see PBS news https://www.pbs.gov.au/info/news/2025/03/pbs-item-supply-for-formerly-private_prescription-items
See you at APP!
Come visit the Fred and MedView teams at APP next month to see what’s new in the world of pharmacy IT. Discover new partner integrations and offers. Get hands-on with MedView Digital Baskets. If you’re interested in improving your pharmacy’s efficiency, we’ve got the IT innovations to help.
Find us on stands 124-127 inside the main exhibition hall.
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Thu 20 Mar |
5.30pm - 8.30pm |
Welcome Reception |
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Fri 21 Mar |
9.00am - 6.30pm |
Trade Exhibition |
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Fri 21 Mar |
5.30pm - 6.30pm |
Wind down at APP’s inaugural ‘Happy Hour' straight after the Conference Sessions conclude |
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Sat 22 Mar |
9.00am - 4.00pm |
Trade Exhibition |
Digital Health: The next 5 years for pharmacy
Thursday 20 March | 2.00-2.45pm | Arena 1A
The May 2023 federal budget revealed a $1.1 billion investment to update the digital health infrastructure and to transform My Health Record into a more data-rich platform. With pharmacists expanding their roles, this session will outline how this digital investment can enhance health outcomes for Australians. It will explore the implications for pharmacists with an upgraded My Health Record, and how the evolving digital medication platforms seek to further improve medication safety.
Moderator: Paul Naismith - Founder and CEO, Fred IT Group
Panellists:
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Daniel McCabe - First Assistant Secretary Medicare Benefits and Digital Health, Australian Government Department of Health
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Paul Creech - Chief Program Officer, Australian Digital Health Agency
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Regina Cowie - Partnerships Manager eHealth, Fred IT Group.
Continued Dispensing Arrangements – Emergency Measures
From 4 February 2025 to 31 March 2025, a temporary PBS Continued Dispensing Emergency Measure has been put in place to support people affected by the flooding disaster in Far North Queensland to continue to access their PBS subsidised medicines.
This PBS Continued Dispensing Emergency Measure will support access to a wider range of PBS medicines than under ongoing Continued Dispensing arrangements, covering most medicines on the General Schedule of the PBS. For further information, please see the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme Continued Dispensing Arrangements webpage.
The Fred Dispense drug file has been updated with the expanded list. When dispensing eligible authority items, please remember to use 123 as the authority number and select the ‘A2022CD or other emergency code’ checkbox.
For continued dispensing related queries please refer to the link above. If you have any other questions, refer to Dispense a Continued Dispensing Supply or contact Fred Help.
Changing Approval Number?
To avoid any interruption in trading at full capacity, it is important you give us plenty of advanced notice.
We have prepared this quick guide to Changing Approval Number for current and new owners to ensure a smooth business transition.
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.
For Highly Specialised Drugs (HSD) items (CAR and non-CAR), please refer to the Schedule of Pharmaceutical Benefits as well as Services Australia to confirm whether the PBS item code for a HSD is eligible to be dispensed and claimed by your pharmacy type.