Changes have been made to the method for requesting an initial PBS authority application for modafinil and armodafinil for narcolepsy without cataplexy from 1 August 2024. Providers are now able to submit the application and the relevant supporting information digitally using the Online PBS Authorities system. The application still needs to be assessed, so approval will not be available instantly, but will be sent to the provider’s Health Professional Online Service (HPOS) mailbox. An application can still be made in writing and either uploaded into HPOS or sent by mail. Hopefully access to the new online application process will reduce some of the administrative burden associated with modafinil and armodafinil initial PBS applications. For more information, please read the information sheet provided by Services Australia.

The second year of the ASA Commonwealth grant program has been another huge 12 months of primary care education, member communication, sleep health promotion and advocacy work.

 Sleep DownUnder 2024 - Early Bird closes this Friday 23 August!

Time is running out for early bird discounts for this year’s Sleep DownUnder, which ends this Friday 23 August.  Register today and take advantage of special rates for this year’s gathering on the Gold Coast, 16-19 October 2024.

Karen Falloon, the 2023 recipient of the Helen Bearpark Memorial Scholarship, used the scholarship to visit the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) to attend an Advanced Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia (CBTI) course. The course is run by the faculty of the Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program at the Perelman School of Medicine and is not offered in the Southern Hemisphere.

View a short video report from Karen