Software Vendor Meetings & Webinars

8 September 2025

The Department of Health, Disability and Ageing conducts meetings to discuss issues relating to the PBS Schedule. Stakeholders include vendors of software applications for prescribing and dispensing medicines, as well as government agencies such as Services Australia and the Australian Digital Health Agency.

An important function of the meetings is to discuss the electronic transmission of PBS Schedule data to vendors.

If you wish to receive information about the software vendor meetings, please subscribe to the PBS Developer News mailing list.

PBS API Software Vendor Webinar - 23 September 2025

Join the meeting
Meeting ID: 410 865 147 922 5
Passcode: jf2MR2y2

Dial in by phone
+61 2 8318 0010,,724425112# Australia, Sydney 

Survey request

We would like to gather your insights on migrating from PBS XML and txt files to the PBS API (v3 Baseline) to help us understand your current integration needs, challenges, and priorities for improvement. Please complete this survey by Thursday, 18 September 2025. The outcomes of this survey will be discussed at the upcoming PBS API Software Vendor Webinar. Estimated completion time: 5-7 minutes.

Please click on the following link to access the survey: https://forms.office.com/r/huYeS7HCLn?origin=lprLink 

PBS API Software Vendor Webinar - 5 March 2025

PBS API Software Vendor Webinar - Dispensing Update - 7 November 2024

PBS API Software Vendor Webinar - Prescribing Update - 6 November 2024

PBS API Software Vendor Webinar - General overview and updates - 22 October 2024

Webinar, Updated API version and transition Q&A - 26 February 2024

Intro to the PBS Data API

Webinar #1, Introduction to the PBS Data API - 6 November 2023

Webinar #2, Accessing the HPP and lodging a request - 13 November 2023

Webinar #3, Retrieving PBS embargo data via Postman - 20 November 2023

Webinar #4, PBS Data API data model - 24 July 2023

PBS Data Distribution Working Group Meetings

PBS Data Distribution, Software Vendor Working Group - Meeting #5 - 15 June 2021

PBS Data Distribution, Software Vendor Working Group - Meeting #4 - 9 February 2021

PBS Data Distribution, Software Vendor Working Group - Meeting #3 - 8 December 2020

PBS Data Distribution, Software Vendor Working Group - Meeting #2 - 10 November 2020

PBS Data Distribution, Software Vendor Working Group - Meeting #1 - 28 September 2020 

Modernising data access Webinar - 30 July 2020

Previous Meetings