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National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits)

(Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without

Prescription during Shortages) Amendment (No. 7) Determination 2023

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

Dated 7 December 2023

 

 

 

 

 

Nikolai Tsyganov

Assistant Secretary

Pricing and PBS Policy Branch

Technology Assessment and Access Division

Department of Health and Aged Care

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Determination 2021

1  Name

(1)    This instrument is the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Amendment (No. 7) Determination 2023.

(2)    This instrument may also be cited as PB 126 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

11 December 2023

11 December 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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made.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  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.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 1—Amendments

National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) (Pharmacist Substitution of

Medicines without Prescription during Shortages) Determination 2021

1  Subsection 5(8)

 

Repeal the table, substitute:

Prescribed and substitute pharmaceutical benefits

Item

Column 1
Prescribed pharmaceutical benefit

Column 2
Substitute pharmaceutical benefit

1

Listed drug:  Insulin degludec with insulin aspart

Form:   Injections, prefilled pen, 70 units30 units per mL, 3 mL, 5

Manner of administration: Injection

Brand:  Ryzodeg Flextouch

Listed drug:  Insulin degludec with insulin aspart

Form:   Injections, cartridges, 70 units30 units per mL, 3 mL, 5

Manner of administration: Injection

Brand:  Ryzodeg Penfill

2

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form: Granules for oral suspension 125 mg (as monohydrate) per 5 mL, 100 mL

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand:  any of the following:

(a)   Cefalexin Sandoz

(b)   Ibilex 125

(c)   Keflex

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form: Granules for oral suspension 250 mg (as monohydrate) per 5 mL, 100 mL

Manner of administration: Oral

Brands: any of the following:

(a)   Cefalexin Sandoz

(b)   Ibilex 250

(c)   Keflex

3

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form: Granules for oral suspension 125 mg (as monohydrate) per 5 mL, 100 mL

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand:  any of the following:

(a)   Cefalexin Sandoz

(b)   Ibilex 125

(c)   Keflex

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form:  Granules for oral suspension 250 mg (as monohydrate) per 5 mL, 100 mL (s19A)

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand: Keforal (s19A)

4

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form: Granules for oral suspension 125 mg (as monohydrate) per 5 mL, 100 mL

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand:  any of the following:

(a)   Cefalexin Sandoz

(b)   Ibilex 125

(c)   Keflex

Listed drug: Cefalexin

Form: Capsule 250 mg (as monohydrate)

Manner of administration: Oral

Brands: any of the following:

(a)   APOCephalexin

(b)   Ibilex 250

(c)   Keflex

5

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form:  Granules for oral suspension 250 mg (as monohydrate) per 5 mL, 100 mL

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand:  any of the following:

(a)   Cefalexin Sandoz

(b)   Ibilex 250

(c)   Keflex

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form:  Granules for oral suspension 125 mg (as monohydrate) per 5 mL, 100 mL

Manner of administration: Oral

Brands: any of the following:

(a)   Cefalexin Sandoz

(b)   Ibilex 125

(c)   Keflex

6

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form:  Granules for oral suspension 250 mg (as monohydrate) per 5 mL, 100 mL

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand: any of the following:

(a)   Cefalexin Sandoz

(b)   Ibilex 250

(c)   Keflex

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form:  Granules for oral suspension 250 mg (as monohydrate) per 5 mL, 100 mL (s19A)

Manner of administration: Oral

(a)   Brand: Keforal (s19A)

7

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form:  Granules for oral suspension 250 mg (as monohydrate) per 5 mL, 100 mL

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand: any of the following:

(a)   Cefalexin Sandoz

(b)   Ibilex 250

(c)   Keflex

Listed drug: Cefalexin 

Form:  Capsule 250 mg (as monohydrate)

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand: any of the following:

(a)   APOCephalexin

(b)   Ibilex 250

(c)   Keflex

8

Listed drug:  Vigabatrin

Form:   Tablet 500 mg

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand:  Sabril

Listed drug:  Vigabatrin

Form:   Oral powder, sachet 500 mg

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand:  Sabril

9

Listed drug:  Fluoxetine

Form:   Tablet, dispersible, 20 mg (as hydrochloride)

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand:  Zactin Tablet

Listed drug:  Fluoxetine

Form:    Capsule 20 mg (as hydrochloride)

Manner of administration: Oral

Brand:   any of the following:

(a) APO-Fluoxetine

(b) BTC Fluoxetine

(c) Blooms the Chemist Fluoxetine

(d) FLUOTEX

(e) Fluoxetine APOTEX

(f) Fluoxetine Sandoz

(g) Fluoxetine generichealth

(h) NOUMED FLUOXETINE

(i) Prozac 20

(j) Zactin