Disease index

severe eosinophilic asthma

Respiratory · 2016–2020

8decisions
2medicines
5carried consumer input
2individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
benralizumab Treatment of uncontrolled severe eosinophilic asthma. This submission relates to a new pre-filled pen/auto-injector presentation of benralizumab, previously… Mar 2020 Recommended with restriction input received Asthma Australia
mepolizumab Treatment of uncontrolled severe eosinophilic asthma in patients aged 12 years and over. New presentations (pre-filled pen and pre-filled syringe) that allow… Mar 2020 Recommended with restriction input received Asthma Australia
benralizumab Treatment of uncontrolled severe eosinophilic asthma in patients aged 12 years and over, as an add-on maintenance treatment. Mar 2018 Noted none received
benralizumab Treatment of uncontrolled severe eosinophilic asthma in patients aged 18 years and over (with blood eosinophil count ≥300 cells/µL and inadequate control… Mar 2018 Recommended with restriction input received Asthma Australia
mepolizumab Treatment of uncontrolled severe eosinophilic asthma in patients aged 12 years and over. The submission sought to remove the six-month treatment break… Mar 2018 Deferred input received
mepolizumab Uncontrolled severe eosinophilic asthma in patients aged 12 years and over as add-on treatment. Nov 2017 Noted none received
mepolizumab Treatment of severe eosinophilic asthma in patients aged 12 years and over. Jul 2016 Recommended with restriction none received
mepolizumab Treatment of severe eosinophilic asthma in patients aged 12 years and over who have failed to achieve adequate control with optimised asthma therapy. Mar 2016 Not recommended 2 individuals National Asthma Council Australia

Who spoke

Asthma Australia · National Asthma Council Australia

What the PBS pays

$174M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 81,510 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
benralizumab $89.6M
mepolizumab $84.6M

Appraised elsewhere

NICE, in England and Wales, has appraised 3 technologies for this condition, recommending 3 . A different committee, a different population and a different price: this is what has been looked at there, not a verdict on what happened here.

TechnologyAppraisalOutcomeDate
mepolizumabMepolizumab for treating severe eosinophilic asthma TA671 recommended restricted 2021-02
benralizumabBenralizumab for treating severe eosinophilic asthma TA565 recommended restricted 2019-03
reslizumabReslizumab for treating severe eosinophilic asthma TA479 recommended restricted 2017-10

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: 5 of 8 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.