Changes to the Prostheses List timeframes (2023/24)

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I'm speaking to you today from the traditional lands of the nunawa people here in the act and I'd like to pay my

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respects to the traditional I've been recorded across Australia where we are all meeting today and extend that

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respect to any First Nations people who are joining us on this webinar

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I'm Elizabeth Flynn I'm the lead for the prosthesis list reform task force and

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today's webinar is going to be about changes to the prosthesis list time frames for this year and next mainly

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this year and I have with me here Jeff Storer from projects assured and

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together we're going to walk you through what what we have planned for the year to come

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so just some housekeeping we're using slido to do the question and answer session you can open slido on the right

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hand side of your screen by clicking on the link in the chat or using the QR code that you see on the right of your

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screen we'll remind you again later in the seminar but if you want to set up slow

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down slido now you can please use the thumbs up button to vote for those questions you would like

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answered first or type your own question questions can be posted at any time

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during the webinar but they'll be answered after our presentation so out of scope questions questions that aren't

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related to the topics that we're discussing today will not be addressed at this webinar but we'll give you some

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contact email addresses at the end where you can send those questions if they're burning for you

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and you can access closed captions they're located at the bottom left of the screen and you click on the symbol

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the CC symbol you can turn them on or off okay what to expect from this webinar

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today uh we're giving you an overview of the timing and impact of bypassing the

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March 2024 update then we'll walk through information on the prosthesis list reforms and

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consultations planned for 2023 and the main part of the webinar is an

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opportunity for stakeholders to ask questions or raise concerns about the proposed changes now we started

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communicating about these changes before Christmas when we send an email to all of the sponsors and we also sent out a

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message in a Phi bulletin but we're following up in this webinar because we really want to reach as many people as

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possible who might be planning to put in an application for a listing in this in

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this year so just a bit of a description of um uh

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how the prosthesis list reforms uh are working together and interacting with

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the move to the Health Products portal on the left hand side of the screen you'll see there's a number of

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um elements so the prosthesis list reform that will progress this year the first one is the new application

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Pathways that we consulted on last year there are three new Pathways

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and we're defining those Pathways for items that are eligible for inclusion on

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the prosthesis list and removing ineligible items those pathways are finalized in November 2022 and we're

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moving into implementation this year the new grouping structure for the prosthesis list you will know that we've

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been doing a lot of Consulting on a new grouping structure which we hope is uh has a clinical logic in it and it's more

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simple simple for all of us to navigate and we will be finalizing net grouping

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structure by March 2023 we're just commencing some consultations on what

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the structure looks like in February there are benefit reductions occurring

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this year both in March and July the ones in March are for the general use items and the ones in July are the

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annual reductions that we're doing it's a second year of reductions of a planned

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three-year Reduction Program and then we're updating cost recovery

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fees so the updated cost recovery Arrangements will take effect from the 1st of July and of course there'll be

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consultation consultation on that before it is finalized so there's a lot of work in

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the reform space and it will interact with the Health Products portal and I'll just hand over to Jeff Storer now who'll

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talk more specifically about what's being planned for the Health Products bottle thanks Jeff thanks Elizabeth and

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most of you or many of you will have heard from Masters part of the development of the Health Products portal we've written out to all members

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who have items listed on the prosthesis list inviting them to participate in the process and many of you haven't

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participated in that process and we thank you for that contribution an overview the HPP is really a larger

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technological transformation and business transformation across the Department of Health across Hall regulated and subsidized items but

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specifically in the in the devices space we're looking to simplify the process of

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applying tracking and paying and managing all regulated and reimbursed Health products and services and

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specifically devices we have been working with the industry around the three application Pathways

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and many of you have participated in the beta exercise and we have decided as part of the

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prosthesis reformers as we bring new legislation into place instead of

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building it into the old capability we'll be putting that into the new technology many of Industry have

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provided advice back to the department about some of the limitations of our existing technology so we're starting to

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update that technology platform and business processes in line with the prosthesis reform changes we will be in

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contact with industry specifically around the next phases of the development of the health product portal again through the similar channels but

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Elizabeth and I thought it's a good opportunity to make sure that people understand that there is a significant intersect between these two things and

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one of the primary drivers around bypassing one of the application Cycles is to ensure that we have a stable

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environment to implement both the new reforms part of the program and the technology part of the program

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so this is the visual describing the activities uh over the next essentially

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the next year and most of you will have seen this in one of the updates and also

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in recent correspondence from the department and what we're showing is the overlap between the Cycles So currently

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the applications uh in January 2023 for the July cycle will be unchanged the

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following cycle which Begins for the publishing cycle in November this year

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again will be largely unchanged but it's the one that we refer to as the March publishing cycle where applications are

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usually commenced around May is the one that we will be removing which means

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that they will have an impact on people's ability to make new applications or managing existing applications and that will be some of

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the questions that we will address today and you can see on the left down the bottom it's so that the reforms that are

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proposed so the new application Pathways finalize the new grouping structure of finalized and the new cost recovery

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arrangements are fine lines so that we can put that capability into the new system and have applications in

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the HPP commencing for the July 24 publishing cycle around September this

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year but I'm sure there'll be some questions in more detail when we get to questions and answers at the end of the webinar

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so what this means um for July November supported by plms using existing PL policy so largely

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nothing will change March 2024 cycle so the publishing cycle will be bypassed and then in July 24

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cycle the full cycle will be supported by the new functionality and the new policy as part of the pl reforms package

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okay so now we're moving on to some information about the prosthesis list reforms and some of the consultations

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that we're planning this year

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so first off for listing Pathways I think most of you would know that we've designed three new Pathways tier one

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tier 2 tier three the tier one pathway is completely in-house and it's for

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medium or lower risk devices the tier 2 pathway is one that requires external

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clinical advice and in some cases Health economics advice and it will go to the

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advisory committee which at the moment is plaque but plaque is getting a bit of

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a makeover as well and then the tier three pathway is the one we uh the

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applicant will go directly to msac for novel technology

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devices where there are no comparators or there's no relevant MBS item

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so all of that will be embedded in the new HPP in the grouping structure as you

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know the prosthesis comprises of at the moment uh four parts Part A is the

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largest part and that's where the medical devices reside Part B is for

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human tissue products part C is for exceptional circumstances and we created

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a Part D last year for the general use items which will be removed from the 1st of July that part G is just for ease of

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identification really now part A has been the subject of the regrouping that

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herrico's been working on um we will also look to do regrouping for Part B but that will come at a later

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date so uh we'll just park that for the moment while we've engaged PWC to do

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some consultations on that area of the prosthesis list Parts C is relatively

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small um the exceptional circumstances that hasn't been the structure there hasn't

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changed and as I mentioned Part D those items will be removed

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so most of the work is happening in part A and then cost recovery uh we are

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moving to a new cost recovery regime that is compliant with the Australian government charging framework

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[Music] um it's interesting to note that cost recovery hasn't changed really for the

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prosthesis list since it was introduced in 2007 and if you compare that for

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those of you who interact with TGA you get new fees and charges and a

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consultation on that every year so there's quite a striking difference between uh prosthesis list and and TGA

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and we just want to modernize I guess the cost recovery arrangements and there'll be further consultation on that

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in the first part of this year the new cost recovery arrangements are scheduled to commence from the 1st of July and

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they will be embedded I guess in the HPP

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foreign so we've also we're also introducing

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quite a raft of legislative changes tranche one has been introduced into

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Parliament and it will be debated in the first half of this year we anticipate

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um that one was for the name change uh we call it we're renaming the prosthesis

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list the prescribed list of medical devices and human tissue products so you can still shorten it to PL if you want

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to we're introducing new definite definitions for medical devices and

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human tissue products and also the cost recovery Provisions so they've all they're all available and and have been

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seen by stakeholders in the first part of this year we'll be working on tranche

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2 which is bundling arrangements for General use items on the pl which will be taken out of the prosthesis list but

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will still be mandated in a different area of the Private health insurance act and we'll be Consulting on that shortly

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um I hack for just an ad for them I hackapa is running an information webinar tomorrow

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um about the consultation on Arrangements scheduled for the first quarter of 2023.

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and then listening criteria for part A and part C uh we're modernizing those as

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well and we'll be doing consultation on them scheduled for the first quarter of 2023 and as I mentioned cost recovery

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fees will be done in parallel with that uh We've also introduced a more

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programmatic style of post listing reviews and we've kicked off the first four of those post listening reviews

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they are looking into surgical guides and buyer models spinal cord stimulators

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metal back patella and neurogynecological mesh devices we've done targeted consultation with the

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sponsors of these device types and we will continue to do that targeted consultation through the first half of

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2023 and then when we identify further reviews we'll let everybody know about

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that we're just working on a program that makes sense and then

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um with these four first reviews uh we're learning as we go about what works

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and what doesn't and we'll feed those lessons into the post listing review framework which is available on our

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website at the moment and then compliance so we've consulted

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on a compliance strategy uh and that has that closed that consultation happened in October last year we've looked at the

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feedback uh before finalizing the strategy and we'll put a response paper up on the website shortly and you'll

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hear about that through a Phi Bulletin and then the compliance strategy and response paper will be published as I

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said in the first quarter of 2023.

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so the prosthesis guide as we change the listing pathways

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um and the grouping structure we have to um update the guide as well so we're in

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the process of developing that to assist applicants for the new application processes uh the guide and the new

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listing criteria the guide will be a reference point on how to collect and compile clinical evidence to meet

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government requirements we'll be Consulting on the guide in the first quarter of 2023 and we'd like to hold

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some workshops on developing successful applications so that people can

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understand what level of evidence is is required for each of those tier one tier

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two tier 3 Pathways so we'll do our best to help people to develop really

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successful applications

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so here's a bit of a summary of the consultation schedule for 2023

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um the next thing you'll hear about is the ihakapa webinar webinar tomorrow on modeling arrangements for the general

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use items uh then we'll do a webinar the

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department will do a webinar to provide an overview of the regrouping approach to part A and part C including

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methodology to address some mixed benefit groups um and then we'll do consultation on the

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mixed benefit groups following that webinar so we really want to set the scene uh with the webinar and then we'll

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come out and consult with sponsors on uh what the next benefits groups might mean

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for their products um then we'll do targeted consultation

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on regrouping for Part B as I said that's part of the work with commission PWC to do the part B work is moving more

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slowly I would say than part A and part C and it probably won't be concluded until

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uh late this year or next year we'll also do targeted consultation on

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the pilot post listening reviews that will be with the impacted sponsors

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I will do consultation on the prosthesis list guide that will kick off in this first quarter

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um we'll also be doing consultation on the charge 2 of legislative changes specifically the listing criteria and

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the bundling arrangements as well as cost recovery and then

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um this is this is highlighted specifically because it's beta testing for PL apply and Jeff will talk about

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this more I think or do you want to talk about it yeah no thanks Elizabeth again many of you have participated in the T1

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application beta process um we are going out for what we call public beta for the tier one tier 2 and

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tier three public beta testing where basically we enable industry to use the

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system in a lower environment in anger and then provide us with some feedback so you'll hear you'll get some detailed

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correspondence from the program team around how to participate in this um and yeah and we look forward to your

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continued supporting them thanks Jeff and then finally in this first quarter

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consultation on the bonding Arrangements again led by our hackbar so there's the

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webinar tomorrow but I have to do to finalize those bundles in March so

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um it's sort of bookended I guess by the webinar tomorrow and then finalizing it in March

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and then the next quarter starts with targeted consultation on

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pilot post listing reviews again

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and the consultation on the prosthesis list guide and various workshops uh consultation on

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trans2 legislative changes again

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and sponsor participation in beta testing for PL apply again is that right

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yeah um and then consultation on funding

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arrangements for generally asylums via our hackback will actually be finalized by then so everyone will know the result

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in that second quarter in the third quarter

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again consultation on post System review framework that will be to Circle back and see what we've learned from the

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initial reviews that we've been doing um and then over to Jeff for the pl

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apply user onboarding yeah and as I described earlier we will be starting to use the new capability uh in September

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and so we will be running an activity where we'll be onboarding all users so setting up user accounts and making sure

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that people have a good understanding through uh user guides Etc on how to use the new application process

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and then following on to that we'll be running onboarding and training activities so webinar series around uh

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where we actually run through each of the functionality and provide kind of Hands-On support for people

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and then moving into you working with the hospitals insurers to participate in the published process private beta so

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that we make sure that the information from those that use information is available in the format in in which they

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use it thanks Jeff so that's the plan for this

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year as you can see there's a lot of consultation which is interrelated but we're trying to

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um I guess bundle it into bite-sized pieces for you through the year

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so I think we might move on to the uh to the question and answer session now um

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we did invite you to send your questions through prior to the webinar so we've picked out some of these to

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um kick off the discussion while people might be typing in their their questions in the system so these are some

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questions that we received prior to the webinar first one is why does a PDL update need to be bypassed so um I might

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kick off with that one um obviously um where we've got a number of Reform

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elements uh that are due to um occur during the year we can't embed those

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reform elements in the existing online system plms um a lot of you will know if you use

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plms it's quite unstable and it's just holding together at the moment but it

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just won't tolerate all of the changes that are coming due to the reforms so we need to plan to move to the HPP uh to

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make those reforms part of the new system Jeff if you've got anything any other comment you'd like to make yeah

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I'm Elizabeth that the alignment between finalizing the reforms in a timely way

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so that we can build that capability in a new system to support it I think is the key reason so it's the intersect

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between changes in legislation and changes in capability to support that legislation

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right thank you so the next question we had was what alternatives are available to submit an application during the

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bypass period uh the short answer is there will be no alternative mechanism for submitting an application during

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this time we don't run a paper-based system really it's all done through plms at the moment so our choices are plms

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and then HPP when we move over to it so we're talking about a period of uh it's

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probably between May and September this year when we won't be able to accept new applications

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so the next question if the if the department will continue to have access to plms can sponsors email the

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department to finalize their documents to an application on their behalf related questions are what options are

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available to finalize applications that have already been recommended but are pending their artg or MBS number

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and I will transfer response to Applications be available they're all related because I guess the the

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fundamental question there is you know I'm almost through the system I've got a small change that I want to make what

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can we do about that during that period from May to September so we're working

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through these questions and we'll provide answers in the coming months uh

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it really depends on uh whether we can make those adjustments in plms or not

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and there has to be I guess I'm calling on Jeff now but there has to be a sort of a cut off period when we've got all

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of the data in plms and it's not going to change anymore and then that transfers over to HPP so that's what

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we're trying to juggle in yeah it's a really important point Elizabeth is maintaining data Integrity through

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transition is fundamental success for all of us so making sure that we have a stable current state so that we can

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transfer the data new capability and people can seamlessly manage their items and also make application against them

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new application structure in the new grouping structure I guess I would also want to say that if

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you've got you know obviously if you're waiting on an artg number or an MBS number that's out of your hands I

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understand that but if you've got small changes or transfer a sponsor or that kind of thing to do please do it now

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please get it done before May if you can that would be our message

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and Elizabeth I just add that as we work through trying to answer some of these

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questions it is almost a case-by-case consideration because they are all unique in their own kind of limitations

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so that's why we're kind of saying the answer is no but if there are some

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things that we can get done in the short term then that will certainly help everybody out yes we'll do our best to accommodate you

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okay um so here's another set oh

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do we do all those okay um another set of three that are quite

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similar or the answer is quite similar if the department will continue to access plms can sponsors email the

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department no we've done those ones haven't we yeah sorry yeah

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all right so I think we're handing over now to Jane who's going to run us through uh the questions that we've

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received so this is your opportunity to type it out

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um and just a reminder that you can access slido through the QR code on your

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screen and I'll hand over to Jane now thank you

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thank you Elizabeth um thank you for reminding um attendees that questions can only be

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asked to slider and they will be moderated there are a few ways to access so I know firstly by opening the app on

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the right hand side of the screen or by using the QR code and password on this slide

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um on the right hand side of the screen you will see the slider bar which will show the questions as they are approved

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and we encourage you to use the thumbs up button to indicate the most popular questions to be addressed first in the

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interest of timing and scope the panel only new addressing questions related to changes to the plus thesis list time

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frames foreign

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in a second

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well we'll have Jeff storera and Wendell Curry from the Health Products portal team and we'll have Elizabeth Flynn

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training parish and an arena sudanova from the prosthesis list

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foreign first question is will there be a

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definition for high-risk products are we talking about classifications per TGA risk class

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I as a general yes I think we are lining up with the risk classifications

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um for is it on yeah uh yes we will try and align where possible with TGA

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thanks Elizabeth all right the next question is what will be the difference between a clinical

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report submitted to TGA and one required by tag

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foreign so I mean it's the same as

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um occurs at the moment um I I guess the main difference between what we do to consider listing on the pl

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compared to TGA is that we're looking for clinical comparators um because uh we want to know that the

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the device that you want listed is at least as effective as the group it's going into

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so that's a different kind of assessment than the one that TGA does

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thank you next question is will the workshops

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mentioned on developing successful applications be relevant to Part B or

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only part a given the expected pace of Part B consultations

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I think in the first instance there'll only be relevant to part A and if we identify a need to run workshops

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specifically for Part B we'll do that later thank you

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all right so what happens if legislation is delayed what flexibility does the

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system have

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um I don't anticipate the legislation is going to be delayed uh but most of what

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we're embedding into the HPP because these this seminar is about you know what to expect in terms of your online

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applications this year what we're embedding into the HPP isn't really dependent on the legislation

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not um significantly no

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well PL items re-classified as general use items the automatically transfer to the

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rearrangement or responses need to reapply Jane can you just um read that again

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we'll automatically be transferred to what to the new arrangements or what

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sponsors need to reapply so um the general designers in part D

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will will be removed from the prosthesis list as of first of July

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so they won't be in the new system on the prosthesis list um they will be listed in a separate

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area of the Private health insurance act but they won't be on the pl anymore

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my next question is ask the March 2024 cycle has been bypassed is it possible

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to have a May 2024 cycle in the room

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I guess um what we think we need to do is

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um make an assessment about that a bit closer to the time

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um I I don't know the capacity of you know participants here today to get an

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application into an earlier cycle or you know like we don't know what the need will be

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um come you know March next year but we'll make an assessment of that as we

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move through the year I think thank you all right so will the criteria for

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moving an application from T1 to ten two or two three be clearly laid out for the

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new PL guidelines yes

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um so this is a clarification question um someone is asking if they can confirm when we say device are we referring to

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both medical devices and human tissue products

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so at the moment um everything we're talking about is medical devices uh there is a

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consultation that is just about to kick off around Part B the human tissue products so um I think where we can

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align the two parts of the pl we will but I'm not going to draw any

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conclusions about that until the consultation um has has happened so for the moment

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um the applications we're talking about are part A applications um and so we're Focus the first Focus

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the initial focus is on uh part a

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we're just looking do you expect that results of the part B

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consultation will be fed into my second update or consultation on the listing

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guide at a date related and current report [Music]

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yes

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um I think yes the results of the part B consultation are where they where they

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are signaling a need to update the guide we will do a second update of the guide

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um what platform will Communications and or requests for information from your department to sponsors them sponsor

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responses be sent from May 23 submissions

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backward movements for May 23 since

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it'll miss you plms will still be functioning

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right can you confirm the main 2023 submission cycle that mine is the 14th

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of May with the plms open to submit

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age yes

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so um I want to be clear you have to get it in before the 14th of

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May that's when after the 14th of May it's period when we won't be accepting applications anymore the 14th of May

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deadline is for the November 2023 publication cycle

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does that make sense yeah

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so if you don't get your application in before the 14th of May you will then have to wait until September

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put some all right so the next question is what documentation requirements oh

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sorry what are the documentation requirements for established and to not

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establish Technologies are we talking about peer review Publications

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I think that question a bit out of scope for this for this webinar

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um it's probably you need to wait for our consultation on the PO guide

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excellent um just a quick one on getting a lot of requests to make the slides available

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since we could just confirm that uh we'll be releasing the slides uh to

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the um participants today but also there's a recording that will be

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published for those that have been unable to um participate today so we'll be

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publishing the recording thank you

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all right so what are the top level changes or differences to HPV in

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comparison to plms is that one Jim

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um so I guess the the main changes between the biggest changes between PLS and HPP are that we have the new pathway

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applications in the HPP uh but there are other changes in the HTTP to address current pain points with plms to address

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the user experience and to make that better for all of the users of plms but the best way to see I'm going to have a

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plug here the best way to see the changes between plns and the HPP is to participate in the upcoming public beta

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you'll be able to jump into the HPP experience it for yourself and provide us with some feedback but I think you'll

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find that the HPP will be certainly what it would definitely be more stable than plms and and much easier to use as well

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but please come and check it out for yourself thankful though

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all right so in regards to the March 24 PL are there any benefit adjustments

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which will be delayed or skipped so there won't be a March 24 update so

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therefore there won't be any reductions that we will anchor to that one

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[Music] uh the initial beta testing was only for

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T1 will there be exposure to tier two and three bio to public figure testing

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uh no so you'll get to see the tier 2 and tier 3 applications in the public

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beta testing and that will kick off with an introductory webinar that you'll be invited to attend so we'll do a demo of

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that tier two and three and then you'll be able to jump in and use the user system in public beta

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I think that also answers the next question which will start when we join the beta testing of the http

36:09

yes I will be sending out an email to invite you to participate and that will

36:14

have the links to the the webinars so you'll be able to come along to those

36:22

um and will all billing code history and previous applications from the plms being transfer to that HPP

36:30

uh that is a very good question uh we are working through that uh but it is

36:37

our understanding so all of all historical information is required by the department in order to make assessments so that will be available to

36:44

the department but we're working through how we can make that available to sponsors to meet their requirements to

36:50

view historical information as well but obviously we've got a lot of things to consider given we're moving from one

36:57

grouping structure to another from one to other model to another so we're we're still working through that at the moment

37:07

um all right so will there be changes in the timelines for small changes such as updating arcg only

37:17

okay so I think this uh relates to a question we answered earlier which is if

37:24

you've just got a small something or other can we help you out with that during this period when we're not accepting applications

37:32

um we're exploring what what plms might be able to accommodate there but I can't

37:38

give any guarantees at this time um so again I would just encourage people if you have small changes or

37:45

changes or sponsors or something like that please get it in before May because the risk is that you might have to wait

37:52

until September if you don't get it in by May Now understand when you're waiting for an artg number it's out of

37:57

your control uh you you it's just when you get it from TGA but we can't cannot

38:03

guarantee in that period that we can update those small changes

38:12

all right the next question seeking parification the plms does remain open

38:18

to submit applications by the deadline 10th of September therefore these applications are assessed for July 2024

38:26

PL ANS

38:34

no uh so the deadline is on the 11th of September

38:39

for the July 2024 publication but that will be in the HPP plms will no longer

38:45

be available uh as of the 11th of September so you'll need to Lodge your

38:50

applications for July 2024 in the HPP

38:56

statements all right um so what are the details of post listing reviews is this similar to

39:03

TGA post Market of arrangements so um I just drawing attention to the

39:09

fact that the post listing review framework is available on our website um and it's really not you know we're

39:17

talking about the HPP and um the bypass of the cycle in this webinar but I would

39:22

direct you to our website and search for the process listing review framework

39:30

foreign

39:42

good question uh I think with the time frames um the consultation on the PO guide will

39:48

probably be happening in parallel to our public beta testing what we have in the Health Products portal is a suite of

39:56

knowledge-based Articles and we have some draft content in there for you to have a look at so you'll be able to

40:01

understand how the knowledge base articles will work and then some of that guide content once the consultation has

40:08

completed can be put into those knowledge base articles so the HPT has in-context help and some of the guide

40:15

content will be either replicated in the HPP or just put in the HTTP instead of

40:20

in the guide so really good question we'd love for it to be there in public better so you can test both at the same

40:26

time but the timing probably won't line up before public beta

40:34

um will updates for General news either is one route or contact bundling be made

40:39

by a HTC all items falling under these categories be automatically updated as

40:45

to UI so there won't be any updating of gym reviews items

40:52

um once they're taken off of the prosthesis list um the the group that we have at the

40:58

moment is the group um I think you know what we're intending is that when we implement this new

41:05

bunding Arrangement it's separate to because by Stacy's list we'll do a review of how it's working after about

41:12

two years and we'll see where that tastes but there won't be any um routine updating of the bundles

41:25

so what date is the HPB expected to be available for September deadline

41:31

so I think I might have confused everybody a little bit here in previous answer so there's not a September

41:38

deadline so the September deadline would have been for the March cycle which

41:43

we're bypassing so the HTTP will be available on the 11th of September for

41:50

the January deadline for the July publication cycle so apologies if I'm

41:56

confused people and I think Paul's question is similar um in vain the next question so yes the HTTP will be

42:02

available on the 11th of September for the deadline in January and we'll make

42:09

sure that you're all onboarded and you have heaps of support Up Until That September 11 date where you'll be able

42:15

to start jumping in and drafting your applications and lodging them through the HPP

42:22

that's great thank you for firefighting and from Barclays by story it's confusing all these dates get a bit

42:28

confusing um so the next one is will the same billing phones and all data be

42:34

transferred to their Google system uh yes

42:41

um but of course the data so we'll be getting the data out of plms will then be transforming that data into the new

42:47

grouping structure and then putting that new grouping structure into the HPP

42:53

foreign just a few questions left um HTTP current uses what other

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requirements for the pl to be enabled at a user level

43:05

right so um thanks for this question Stephanie so Stephanie's already a user of the HPP uh

43:12

so you won't have to do anything you'll just log on to the HTTP as you usually do on the 11th of September and you'll

43:19

just see that the applications for prosthesis list will have appeared in the HPP so for existing HPP users you

43:27

won't have to do anything your experience will be the same you'll just start to be able to apply to the

43:32

prosthesis list through the HPP on the 11th of September

43:40

um I'm not sure about just a lot of answers the next one which is Glory Be will we have an opportunity

43:45

to test for functionality at HPV including access to historical data prior to removal appearance

43:54

um it sounds like that's quite an important uh point so we will take that question away and have a think about

44:00

that and we certainly can provide another round of testing so we'll have a

44:05

consideration of that and work out when we might be able to fit that in to the plan so yeah really good question thank

44:12

yous like Michelle Costa's got the same yeah um so our final question which we have

44:17

foreign

44:34

ones [Music]

44:45

no thanks Jane it looks like we've come to the end of the questions uh we're doing a repeat of this webinar

44:51

next week if you've sat in on this one you don't need to come to the the one next week because we'll be doing it all

44:57

over again um there's suddenly two more questions so James excellent thank you everybody

45:03

so which cycle well then you would expect to look here

45:10

July the first one out of the HPP which is July 24th

45:17

and do users need to rewrap the stuff for each treatment

45:24

so if you're an existing HPP user you won't need to re-register but in order

45:29

to start using the Hep you will need to register using your ligov ID so we're

45:35

not we can't automatically transfer your plms registration over so we'll help to

45:40

take you through the process of registering in the HPP and linking your mygov ID to your HPP profile so all that

45:48

will be will take you through all of that in the onboarding activities later this year okay looks like we've come to a pause

45:56

again thank you very much Jane for helping us out there and thank you to all the participants

46:02

that's been really helpful to us to identify your key concerns and things that we need to take away and have a bit

46:08

more of a think about we'll continue to um compound information about this

46:16

um My Hope Is that you we get the feedback that you've heard it all before because we really want to make sure that

46:21

we reach everybody who might be planning to put an application in of any sort this year because they need to know

46:28

about uh these changes that we've had to put in place uh for the big move

46:34

so um final slide here is about getting in touch with us we do have quite a

46:40

number of email addresses depending on what your question is I think the most important one

46:46

um out of this webinar is the Health Products portal one so the people who want to know how to register for the

46:53

public beta and that kind of thing that the communications coming out but you've got an email address there in the middle

46:59

uh for those of you who are asking questions about the general use items and the bundling Arrangements there's an

47:07

email there from ihackpa and they are delivering a webinar tomorrow as well

47:12

which you should know about and then for the prosthesis reforms if you have a

47:18

question about applications just be Au style questions about applications

47:23

there's an email address there if you have a general question about the reforms we have an email address

47:29

uh if you specifically want to know more about post listing reviews there's an email address or if you specifically

47:36

want to know about compliance there's a separate email address there so I hope that will help you navigate navigate

47:42

your way to get the information that you need as I said we'll be repeating this webinar next week but it is a repeat so

47:50

you don't have to sit in on both and we'll continue to provide information to you uh frequently as we

47:58

move through this year so thank you all for your attendance bye