Disease index

epilepsy, partial seizures

Neurology · 2005–2012

2decisions
2medicines
0carried consumer input
0individual submissions

Every decision here pre-dates the consumer comments facility, so no input would be recorded either way.

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
lacosamide Add-on therapy for partial-onset seizures with or without secondary generalisation in patients with drug-resistant epilepsy aged 16 years or older. Nov 2012 Recommended with restriction no section in document
pregabalin Adjunctive therapy for partial epileptic seizures not satisfactorily controlled by other anti-epileptic drugs in patients 18 years of age or older. Jul 2005 Recommended with restriction no section in document

What the PBS pays

$69M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 3,476,376 services.

This is spend on the medicines considered for this condition, not spend on the disease. A medicine used for several conditions is counted in full under each, so figures across conditions add to more than national PBS expenditure.

MedicineGovernment benefit
pregabalin $54.3M
lacosamide $15M

Conditions are classified by a language model from the indication text of each submission, so an individual label here can be wrong. Consumer input is read from the document's own consumer comments section: 0 of 0 decisions since 2014 carried some. Silence means no comment reached the committee through that facility, not that nobody was affected. More on how this was built.