Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1983 No. 28 NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL BENEFITS) REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) - SCHEDULE 4

SCHEDULE 4
Regulation 5 AMENDMENTS OF SCHEDULE 5 TO THE NATIONAL HEALTH (PHARMACEUTICAL
BENEFITS) REGULATIONS 1. After item 2 insert the following item:
   "2A 'ALBUMAID  XP'                    Phenylketonuria".
2. After item 4 insert the following item:

"4A 'AMINOGRAN FOOD
SUPPLEMENT'                              Phenylketonuria".
3. Omit item 6. 4. Omit item 14, substitute the following item:

"14 (1) Bisacodyl
Suppositories, B.P.       (2)

Bisacodyl Tablets, B.P.                  Any disease or condition in a

paraplegic or quadraplegic patient
For use by patients who are receiving
long-term intensive nursing care
inhospitals or nursing homes
For use by patients for whose care a
Common- wealth Domiciliary Nursing
Care Benefit is approved". 5. Omit items 16 and 17, substitute the following
item:
   "16  Bromocriptine Mesylate           With the written authority of the

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Acromegaly, prior to surgery or
radiotherapy or where surgery or
radiotherapy is inappropriate
Pathological hyperprolactinaemia
where appropriate surgery or
radiotherapy is not indicated or has
already been used with incomplete
resolution". 6. After item 24A insert the following item:
   "24B Captopril                        With the written authority of the

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For the continuing treatment of
severe refractory hypertensive
disease where treatment with
captopril was initiated in a
hospital". 7. After item 26 insert the following item:
   "26A Carindacillin Sodium             With the written authority of the

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Infections where positive
bacteriological evidence confirms
that carindacillin or carbenicillin
is the most appropriate therapeutic
agent". 8. Omit item 28. 9. Omit item 39. 10. Omit item 45. 11. Omit item 47.
12. Omit item 49. 13. After item 74 insert the following item:

"74A (1) Flucloxacillin
Capsules, B.P.       (2)
Flucloxacillin Sodium, B.P., with
Purified Water, B.P.                     With the written authority of the

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Infections due to the presence of
penicillin- resistant staphylococci
Osteomyelitis". 14. After item 98 insert the following item:
   "98A 'LOFENALAC'                      Phenylketonuria".
15. Omit item 99, substitute the following item:
   "99 'MAXAMAID  XP'                    Phenylketonuria".
16. Omit item 124. 17. After item 144 insert the following item:
   "144A (1) 'PK  AID  I'                Phenylketonuria".


(2) 'PK AID II' 18. Omit item 150, substitute the following item:

"150 Prednisolone Acetate
Injection                                Local intra-articular or peri-

articular infiltration". 19. Omit item 160. 20. Omit item 178. 21. Omit item
179, substitute the following item:

"179 Thiopropazate Hydrochloride
Tablets, B.P.                            Chorea".