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Information about medicines provided to people under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

Explains the medicine subsidy program and links to listings, statistics and supporting information.

Dataset summary

Asset
PLIDA
Collection
administrative
Supplier
DHDA
Custodian
DHDA
Reference period
2006 to current
Update frequency
Quarterly
Products
20
Tables
232
Unique variables
30
Variable occurrences
6,780
Metadata source
PLIDA Data Item List, 19 March 2026
Official information
PBS overview

Products and tables

PBS has 20 products covering 232 tables.

Product Tables Variables
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2006 7 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2007 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2008 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2009 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2010 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2011 12 27
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2012 12 27
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2013 12 27
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2014 12 27
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2015 12 27
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2016 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2017 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2018 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2019 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2020 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2021 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2022 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2023 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2024 12 30
madipge-pbs-d-prescriptions-2025 9 30

Variables

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