THE Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) is seeking feedback from interested stakeholders on a proposal around requirements for medicine sponsors confidential reporting of medicines shortages to the TGA.
It is proposed that the communication would need to classify the shortage under a revised medicines shortages protocol defining the potential patient impact which, if it is either "extreme" or "high", is mandated to be published via the Medicines Shortages Information Initiative (MSII) on the TGA website.
The consultation seeks input on how the management and communication of medicines shortages are to be implemented.
Go to tga.gov.au for documents.
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