Contents
- Part 2 – Special arrangements for prescribing, supply and claiming of pharmaceutical benefits
- Part 1 – Preliminary
- 1 Name
- 2 Commencement
- 3 Authority
- 4 Schedule 2
- 5 Definitions
- Part 2 – Special arrangements for prescribing, supply and claiming of pharmaceutical benefits
- 6 Meaning of special arrangement supply
- 7 Pharmaceutical benefits covered by this instrument
- 8 Prescribing a special arrangement supply of a pharmaceutical benefit - general
- 9 Prescribing a special arrangement supply of a pharmaceutical benefit – modification of section 41
- 10 Supplies by eligible approved suppliers
- 11 Claims for payment
- 12 Pharmacy records
- Schedule 1
- Schedule 2 Repeals
Part 2 – Special arrangements for prescribing, supply and claiming of pharmaceutical benefits#
12 Pharmacy records…………………………………………………………………………....5
Part 3 - Application and transitional arrangements 7
13 Definitions………………………………………………………………………………,…..7
14 Supplies made on transitional prescriptions……………………………………………...,…7
15 Claims for supplies made on transitional prescriptions………………………………….….7
16 Retention of records and provision of documents………………………………………...…7
1 Name#
(1)This instrument is the National Health (Cabrini Private Hospitals Paperless Prescribing, Dispensing and Claiming Trial) Special Arrangement 2026.
(2)This instrument may also be cited as PB 123 of 2026.
2 Commencement#
(1)Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. The whole of this instrument | 30 September 2026. | 30 September 2026 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
3 Authority#
This instrument is made under subsections 100(1) and 100(2) of the National Health Act 1953.
4 Schedule 2#
Each instrument that is specified in Schedule 2 to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule, and any other item in that Schedule has effect according to its terms.
5 Definitions#
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in the Act, including the following:
In this instrument:
eligible approved supplier means an approved supplier mentioned in column 3 of an item in the table in Schedule 1.
eligible hospital means a hospital mentioned in column 2 of an item in the table in Schedule 1.
patient of an eligible hospital means an in-patient who occupies a bed in an eligible hospital for the purpose of receiving hospital treatment.
PBS prescriber has the same meaning as in Part VII of the Act.
pharmaceutical benefit has the same meaning as in Part VII of the Act.
electronic medication charting system means a system which facilitates the electronic management of medications and associated electronic medication chart orders for patients of an eligible hospital.
electronic medication chart order means an order for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit, prepared and approved electronically and which forms part of the eligible hospital’s electronic medication charting system for the purpose of treating a patient of the hospital.
paper-based medication chart order means a paper-based order for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit for the purpose of treating a patient of an eligible hospital.
Regulations means the National Health (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 2017.
Schedule 1 means Schedule 1 to this instrument.
special arrangement supply: see section 6.
7 Pharmaceutical benefits covered by this instrument#
(a)it does not contain a drug that is subject to a declaration under subsection 85(2A) of the Act; and
(b)it is not subject to a determination under paragraph 85(8)(a) of the Act; and
(c)for a pharmaceutical benefit in relation to which a determination under paragraph 85(8)(b) has been made about the circumstances in which the benefit can only be supplied under a special arrangement under section 100 - the supply is not in those circumstances.
8 Prescribing a special arrangement supply of a pharmaceutical benefit - general#
Note: Other kinds of authority prescriptions require an authority approval number to be allotted to the prescription by the Chief Executive Medicare or the Minister.
9 Prescribing a special arrangement supply of a pharmaceutical benefit – modification of section 41#
Completing electronic and paper-based medication chart orders - authority prescriptions
12 Pharmacy records#
Electronic pharmacy records
Note: This subsection establishes record keeping requirements that correspond to the requirements contained in section 61 of the Regulations.
Part 3 - Application and transitional arrangements
13 Definitions
In this Part:
(a) former Special Arrangement means the National Health (Epworth and Cabrini Private Hospitals Paperless Prescribing and Claiming Trial) Special Arrangement 2016 (PB 28 of 2016), as in force immediately before the transition time;
(b) transition time means 30 September 2026;
(c) transitional prescription means a prescription for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit under the former Special Arrangement that was made:
(i) before the transition time; and
(ii) in accordance with the former Special Arrangement.
14 Supplies made on transitional prescriptions
Despite the repeal of the former Special Arrangement, section 8 of the former Special Arrangement continues to apply to the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit based on a transitional prescription, as if the repeal had not happened, whether the supply was made before, on or after the transition time.
15 Claims for supplies made on transitional prescriptions
(1) This section applies where a claim for payment is made after the transition time for the supply of a pharmaceutical benefit made on the basis of a transitional prescription, whether the supply was made before, on or after the transition time.
(2) Despite the repeal of the former Special Arrangement, section 8 of the former Special Arrangement continues to apply to the claim, as if the repeal had not happened.
16 Retention of records and provision of documents
(a) that requirement continues to apply despite the repeal of the former Special Arrangement; and
(b) subsection 12(4) of this Special Arrangement applies to a notification for a copy of that pharmacy record made after the transition time.
(2) Subsection 12(1) of this Special Arrangement applies to a request for a copy of a medication chart (as defined in the previous Special Arrangement) made after the transition time as if that medication chart were an electronic medication chart order or paper-based medication chart order, as appropriate.
Schedule 1
| Item | Column 2 – name and address of hospital | Column 3 – name, address and approvalnumber of the approved supplier |
| 1 | Cabrini Brighton 243 New StreetBrighton, Victoria 3186 | Cabrini Brighton243 New StreetBrighton, Victoria 3186Approval Number: HV266K |
| 2 | Cabrini Malvern 183 Wattletree RoadMalvern, Victoria 3144 | Cabrini Malvern183 Wattletree RoadMalvern, Victoria 3144Approval Number: HV214Q |
Schedule 2 · Repeals
National Health (Epworth and Cabrini Private Hospitals Paperless Prescribing and Claiming Trial) Special Arrangement 2016#
1 The whole of the instrument
Repeal the instrument.
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