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PB 20 of 2023 Determinations/Health as made
This instrument amends the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Determination 2021 by adding various forms, not brands of warfarin that are currently subject to a Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) Serious Scarcity Substitution Instrument (SSSI). This allows supplies made under the TGA SSSI to be PBS subsidised.
Administered by: Health and Aged Care
Registered 16 Mar 2023
Tabling HistoryDate
Tabled HR20-Mar-2023
Tabled Senate21-Mar-2023
To be repealed 20 Jun 2023
Repealed by Division 1 of Part 3 of Chapter 3 of the Legislation Act 2003

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National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits)

(Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without

Prescription during Shortages) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2023

I, Nikolai Tsyganov, as delegate of the Minister for Health and Aged Care, make the following determination.

Dated  16  March 2023

 

 

 

Nikolai Tsyganov

Assistant Secretary

Pricing and PBS Policy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Department of Health and Aged Care

 


Contents

1......... Name............................................................................................................................... 1

2......... Commencement............................................................................................................... 1

3......... Authority......................................................................................................................... 1

4......... Schedules......................................................................................................................... 1

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                                          1

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1  Name

(1)    This instrument is the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Amendment (No. 1) Determination 2023.

(2)    This instrument may also be cited as PB 20 of 2023.

2  Commencement

(1)    Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

 

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

17 March 2023

17 March 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

(2)    Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument.

Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

                    This instrument is made under subsection 89A(3) of the National Health Act 1953.

4  Schedules

                   Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of

Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Determination 2021

Subsection 5(8), after item 28 dealing with cefalexin

Insert:

Prescribed and substitute pharmaceutical benefits

Item

Column 1
Prescribed pharmaceutical benefit

Column 2
Substitute pharmaceutical benefit

29

Listed drug: Warfarin

Form:  Tablet containing warfarin sodium 5 mg

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand: Coumadin

Listed drug:  Warfarin   

Form:   Tablet containing warfarin sodium 1 mg

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand: Coumadin

30

Listed drug: Warfarin

Form:  Tablet containing warfarin sodium 5 mg

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand: Coumadin

Listed drug:  Warfarin   

Form:  Tablet containing warfarin sodium 2 mg

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand: Coumadin