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NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS-BUDGET AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2017

                                        2016-2017-2018



              THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA



                              HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES



        NATIONAL HEALTH AMENDMENT (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS -
                 BUDGET AND OTHER MEASURES) BILL 2017



                                    CORRECTION TO THE

                              EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM




OUTLINE

Under the heading Minor drafting improvements and technical changes, paragraph 3,
omit:
         updating an obsolete reference to 'manufacturers' in the privacy exemption relating
          to publication of PBS brand level statistics to refer also to 'responsible persons';
         replacing the term 'medical practitioner' with 'PBS prescriber' for the purposes of
          supply of pharmaceutical benefits in certain institutional settings;
         providing consistency for data collection for under co-payment prescriptions by
          referring also to concessional under co-payment prescriptions; and
         correcting a minor typographical punctuation error resulting from a previous
          amendment.
substitute:
         replacing the term 'medical practitioner' with 'PBS prescriber' for the purposes of
          supply of pharmaceutical benefits in certain institutional settings; and
         providing consistency for data collection for under co-payment prescriptions by
          referring also to concessional under co-payment prescriptions.




         (Circulated by authority of the Minister for Health, the Honourable Greg Hunt MP)




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