Good morning Andrew,

 

Acknowledgement of receipt of Freedom of Information request

 

I refer to your request received by the Department of Health and Aged Care
(the department) for access to documents under the Freedom of Information
Act 1982 (FOI Act). You have requested access to:

In reviewing PBS and RPBS Section 85 Date of Supply Data for specific
medicines, I noticed that PBS data for medicines with PBS Codes 12499W,
12548K and 12503C were missing completely in the period from July 2019 to
May 2021.

Could data for those medicines please be made available for review?

 

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Grace (she/her)

FOI Case Officer – Freedom of Information Section

Legal Advice and Legislation

Legal Division | Corporate Operations Group

Australian Government, Department of Health and Aged Care

T: 02 6289 1666 | E: [3][email address]

PO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

The Department of Health and Aged Care acknowledges the traditional owners
of country throughout Australia, and their continuing connection to land,
sea and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to
elders both past and present

 

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Dear Andrew,

 

Thank you for agreeing to the exclusions under s22(1)(a)(ii) of the FOI
Act.

 

We confirm that we have accepted your revised scope to be

 

In reviewing PBS and RPBS Section 85 Date of Supply Data for specific
medicines, I noticed that PBS data for medicines with PBS Codes 12499W,
12548K and 12503C were missing completely in the period from July 2019 to
May 2021.

 

Could data for those medicines please be made available for review?

 

I've been searching the same datasets from the PBS Statistics page trying
to locate these missing data and there are more missing than first
thought. They are mostly all on the Palliative Care Schedule and are the
following:

o "Morphine

50 mg/5 mL injection,

5 x 5 mL ampoules (Palliative Care Schedule) 12470H"

 

o "Morphine

10 mg/mL oral liquid,

200 mL

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12472K"

 

o "Morphine

15 mg modified release tablet, 28

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12476P"

 

o "Morphine

100 mg modified release tablet, 28

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12483B"

 

o "Morphine

50 mg modified release capsule, 28

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12489H"

 

o “Morphine

30 mg modified release capsule, 14

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12490J"

 

o “Morphine sulfate injection

10 mg/mL injection, 5 x 1 mL ampoules:

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12499W"

 

o "Morphine

30 mg modified release tablet, 28

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12500X"

 

o “Morphine

10 mg modified release capsule, 28

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12501Y"

 

o "Morphine

10 mg/mL injection,

5 x 1 mL ampoules

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12502B"

 

o "Morphine

30 mg/mL injection,

5 x 1 mL ampoules

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12503C"

 

o "Morphine

60 mg modified release capsule, 14

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12487F"

 

o "Morphine

5 mg modified release tablet, 28

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12492L"

 

o "Morphine

120 mg modified release capsule, 14

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12512M"

 

o "Morphine

90 mg modified release capsule, 14

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12514P"

 

o "Morphine

100 mg modified release capsule, 28

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12529K"

 

o "Morphine

100 mg/5 mL injection, 5 x 5 mL ampoules (Palliative Care Schedule)
12537Y"

 

o "Morphine

20 mg modified release capsule, 28

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12539Y"

 

o "Morphine

60 mg modified release tablet, 28

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12544Y"

 

o "Morphine

60 mg modified release tablet, 28

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12544Y"

 

o "Morphine sulfate injection

15 mg/mL injection, 5 x 1 mL ampoules:

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12548K"

 

o "Morphine

5 mg/mL oral liquid, 200 mL

(Palliative Care Schedule)

12549L"

 

The above include those that I originally requested information to in my
original FOI and the new ones which also do not have any prescriptions
data in the published statistics at this page:

[1]https://www.pbs.gov.au/info/statistics/d...

 

I've also checked archived versions of that page to find previous
information and have accessed the July 2019 to September 2023 spreadsheet.

For the above, there are no data from the period July 2019-May 2021.

 

Kind Regards,

 

FOI Case Officer – Freedom of Information Section

Legal Advice and Legislation

Legal Division | Corporate Operations Group

Australian Government, Department of Health and Aged Care

T: 02 6289 1666 | E: [2][email address]

PO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia

The Department of Health and Aged Care acknowledges the traditional owners
of country throughout Australia, and their continuing connection to land,
sea and community. We pay our respects to them and their cultures, and to
elders both past and present

 

 

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