Paper and digital copy prescriptions Doctors can provide you with a paper prescription or send a digital copy of the prescription to your preferred pharmacy following a telehealth consultation. If your doctor sends a fax , email or a photo of a script to a pharmacy, you must fill the prescription at that pharmacy. If there are any repeats on the prescription, the repeats must be kept at that pharmacy. You can contact the pharmacy to arrange the next supply of your medicine when you need it.   If you wish to move your script to another pharmacy or retain your prescription at home you must arrange with the doctor to sent the ORIGINAL to the pharmacy. The pharmacy can then process it and give it back to you with any repeats remaining The doctor can now give you a digital prescription where there is no paper component. You receive the script as an email or as a SMS and you take your phone to the pharmacy to process the script. If it's on your phone you cannot ring the pharmacy ...

The PBS Safety Net protects patients and their families requiring a large number of PBS or RPBS items.  The family includes the person: the partner or de facto partner; the children under the age of 16  or dependent full-time students under the age of 25.  When a patient reaches the Safety Net threshold within a calendar year, they qualify to receive PBS or RPBS items at a cheaper price or free of charge for the rest of that year. Any applicable special patient contributions, brand premiums or therapeutic group premiums must still be met by the patient. Safety Net thresholds The general patient Safety Net threshold is currently $1,486.80. When a person and/or their family's total applicable co-payments reach this amount  they then pay the concessional co-payment amount of $6.60 plus any applicable premium for pharmaceutical benefits for the rest of that calendar year. The concessional Safety Net threshold is $316.80 (this also applies to gold, white or orange card ho...