The government is now operating in accordance with the Guidance on Caretaker Conventions, pending the outcome of the 2025 federal election.
Information for sponsors and manufacturers explaining what to do if there is a medicine shortage.
Sponsors of ‘reportable medicines’ must notify the TGA when the medicine is in shortage or being discontinued.
A medicine shortage occurs when the supply of a medicine is not likely to meet the normal or projected consumer demand within Australia at any point during the next 6 months. A discontinuation is a permanent shortage.
The Department of Health and Aged Care acknowledges First Nations peoples as 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 all Elders both past and present.
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