Our PBS is often a lifeline, but it is taking too long to deliver for too many patients and is failing to keep pace with medical breakthroughs.
The PBS is buckling under pressure, and the increasingly tumultuous global environment - including changes to international trade policy - is not making this any easier.
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With threats and problems growing, our mission is now more grave than simply Strengthening the PBS, we are now in a fight to Save the PBS.
While the PBS remains one of Australia’s most important public health programs, the system used to assess and list medicines has not undergone substantial reform in more than 30 years.
We are deeply concerned that, without action, Australians will continue waiting too long to access the medicines they need, even when these medicines are readily available for patients in other countries.
As a result, Australians are increasingly being pushed to the back of the global queue for innovative medicines, with patients now waiting an average of 3.6 years for access to treatments already available overseas.