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RECOGNITION OF GOVERNMENT DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PATIENTS WELCOMED IN FEDERAL BUDGET
The Albanese Government has announced funding of $377.3 million over four years, with $98.4 million ongoing to make patient access more affordable under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Opioid Dependence Treatment program (ODTP).
An historic change to medicines access for these patients, the investment highlights the financial burden patients have endured for many years. As the system moves to end the discrimination against these patients, Better Access Australia restates its call for an Inquiry into how this was allowed to go unaddressed for so long.
A copy of our media release can be found here