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

• Tuesday 23 September 2025, 11:00am - 12.00pm (AEDT)
• Agenda (PDF 255KB) - (Word 43KB)

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

• Recording of webinar
• Presentation (PDF 3MB) - (PowerPoint 1MB)
• Item Overview Sample (Text 41KB)

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

• Recording of webinar
• Presentation (PDF 617KB) - (PowerPoint 662KB)

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

• Recording of webinar
• Presentation (PDF 628KB) - (PowerPoint 719KB)

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

• Recording of webinar
• Presentation (PDF 569KB) - (PowerPoint 664KB)
• Items endpoint example - all fields (TXT/JSON 163KB)

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

• Recording of webinar – 26 February 2024 - Presentation (PDF 455KB) - (PowerPoint 639KB)

Intro to the PBS Data API

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

• Recording of Webinar #1 – 6 November 2023 - Presentation (PDF 1.1MB) - (PowerPoint 943KB)

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

• Recording of Webinar #2 – 13 November 2023 - Presentation (PDF 514KB) - (PowerPoint 760KB)

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

• Recording of Webinar #3 - 20 November 2023 - Presentation (PDF 273KB) - (PowerPoint 498KB)

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

• Recording of Webinar #4 – 24 July 2023 - Presentation (PDF 1.3MB) - (PowerPoint 1.6MB)

PBS Data Distribution Working Group Meetings

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

• Presentation (PDF 350KB) - (PowerPoint 540KB)
• Recording of Meeting
• Meeting Notes (PDF 216KB) - (Word 145KB)

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

• Presentation (PDF 1MB) - (PowerPoint 879KB)
• Recording of Meeting
• Meeting Notes (PDF 201KB) - (Word 137KB)

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

• Presentation (PDF 1.5MB) - (PowerPoint 1.5MB)
• Recording of Meeting
• Alpha API v.0.9.0 Documentation
• Meeting Notes (PDF 225KB) - (Word 135KB)

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

• Presentation (PDF 1.5MB) - (PowerPoint 1.2MB)
• Recording of Meeting
• Draft Legislative Instrument DataMart (PNG 306KB)
• Draft Legislative Instrument DataMart Data Dictionary v0.5 (Excel 38KB)
• Meeting Notes (PDF 223KB) - (Word 142KB)

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

• Presentation (PDF 1.3MB) -  (PowerPoint 1.2MB)
• Meeting Notes (PDF 221KB) - (Word 141KB)

Modernising data access Webinar - 30 July 2020

• Presentation (PDF 1.6MB) - (PowerPoint 3MB)

Previous Meetings

• Webinar: Thursday 30 July 2020

• Teleconference: 18 September 2019

• Meeting: 28 May 2019, Canberra 

• Meeting: 14 November 2018, Sydney

• Meeting: 11 May 2017, Sydney

• Meeting: 13 October 2016, Melbourne

• Meeting: 24 February 2016, Sydney

• Meeting: 17 September 2015, Melbourne

• Workshop: 25 August 2015, Sydney

• Meeting: 20 March 2015, Sydney

• Meeting: 14 August 2014, Melbourne

• Meeting: 11 June 2013, Sydney

• Meeting: 1 May 2012, Canberra

• Meeting: 17th October 2011, Sydney

• Meeting: 8th February 2011, Sydney

• Meeting: 17th February 2010, Melbourne

• Workshop: 25th November 2009, Canberra

• Meeting: 9th September 2009, Sydney

• Meeting:  6th February 2009, Melbourne

• Meeting: 26th September 2008, Sydney

• Meeting:  24th April 2008, Melbourne

• Details of meetings held in 2005, 2006 and 2007 are not available online