National medicines database promised after telehealth ‘doctor-shopping’ leads to overdose
Reminders of Alison Collins’s late daughter Erin fill the Melbourne home they once shared. From the family’s loyal…
Weight loss drug Wegovy to be subsidised for Australians with severe obesity
An Ozempic-like medication is set to be listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme shortly, saving patients with “severe”…
Weight loss drug Wegovy to be listed on PBS
Wegovy will be heavily subsidised for Australians with severe obesity, who have also experienced a cardiovascular event, like…
Anthony Albanese writes to states, telling them to rein in public hospital spending
The states and territories are on a collision course with the Commonwealth over public hospital funding, with health…
National mental health agreement failing, Productivity Commission finds
A landmark mental health agreement signed by federal, state and territory governments three years ago is failing, a…
Disability employment provider Bedford kept afloat with $4.4m funding injection as hunt for buyer continues
Australia’s second-largest disability employment provider Bedford will be kept afloat by a federal government funding injection as it…
Disability employment provider Bedford’s financial situation concerns SA, federal government
The federal disability minister says his concerns about the financial state of the country’s second-largest employer of people…
Big change coming to cost of medicines
Prescriptions listed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme will be cut from $31.60 to $25 from January 1, 2026,…
SA disability employment provider Bedford hopes for government funding lifeline
Disability employment provider Bedford is hoping the federal government will throw it a financial lifeline to avoid the…