Disease index

intractable partial epilepsy

Neurology · 2015–2016

2decisions
2medicines
1carried consumer input
0individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
brivaracetam Intractable partial epileptic seizures in patients aged 16 years or older, either as add-on therapy in patients whose seizures have failed to be controlled by… Jul 2016 Not recommended input received
lacosamide Continuation/maintenance treatment for intractable partial epileptic seizures in patients aged 16 years or older who have previously been treated with… Mar 2015 Recommended no section in document

What the PBS pays

$24M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 181,129 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
lacosamide $15M
brivaracetam $8.5M

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: 1 of 2 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.