Bill
National Health Amendment (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2019-04-11. Health portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Health
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-02-14
- second reading — 2019-02-14
- other — 2019-04-11
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-02-14.
The bill would change how the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme handles pharmacy approvals and medicine supply after pharmacy insolvency.
It would introduce a fee for pharmacists applying to supply PBS medicines and let the Minister set the fee by regulation.
The bill would also let the Health Secretary temporarily allow a bankruptcy trustee to keep supplying PBS medicines at a bankrupt pharmacy until it is sold.
- Introduce an application fee for pharmacists seeking approval to supply PBS medicines at specific premises.
- Enable the Minister to determine the application fee by legislative instrument.
- Allow the Secretary of the Department of Health to grant permission for a bankruptcy trustee to supply PBS medicines at a bankrupt pharmacy for a temporary period.
- Permit an external administrator to request cancellation of a pharmacist's approval so another pharmacist can be approved at the same or different premises.
Pharmacists, bankruptcy trustees, external administrators, and consumers who rely on PBS medicines at affected pharmacies.
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