Disease index

type 1 diabetes

Endocrinology · 2006–2025

8decisions
4medicines
1carried consumer input
0individual submissions

Every decision

MedicineMeetingOutcomeConsumer input
insulin degludec Treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus in patients aged 1 year or older, as an alternative to insulin glargine 100 IU/mL and to replace insulin detemir… Jul 2025 Recommended with restriction input received DANII Foundation · Diabetes Alliance · Australian Diabetes Society
insulin aspart Treatment of diabetes mellitus. Truvelog is a biosimilar to the reference brand NovoRapid, registered for the same indication. Nov 2021 Recommended none received
insulin glargine Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes mellitus. Biosimilar brand of insulin glargine for patients requiring insulin therapy. Jul 2018 Recommended none received
insulin glargine Treatment of type 1 diabetes mellitus in adults and children and type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults who require insulin for the control of hyperglycaemia. Mar 2015 Recommended no section in document
insulin detemir Treatment of Type 1 diabetes patients requiring intensive insulin therapy with 3 or more injections of insulin per day with one of the insulins being a short… Mar 2006 Recommended with restriction no section in document
insulin glargine Treatment of Type 1 diabetes mellitus in adults and children, and Type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults who require insulin for the control of hyperglycaemia. Mar 2006 Recommended no section in document
insulin detemir Treatment of Type 1 diabetes requiring intensive insulin therapy with 3 or more injections of insulin per day, including one short-acting insulin. Also for… Mar 2006 Recommended with restriction no section in document
insulin glargine Treatment of Type 1 diabetes mellitus in adults and children, and Type 2 diabetes mellitus in adults who require insulin for control of hyperglycaemia. Mar 2006 Recommended no section in document

Who spoke

DANII Foundation · Diabetes Alliance · Australian Diabetes Society

What the PBS pays

$298M in government benefit over 2024–25, across 1,258,610 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
insulin aspart $142.1M
insulin glargine $73.4M
insulin degludec $72.8M
insulin detemir $9.8M

Appraised elsewhere

NICE, in England and Wales, has appraised 2 technologies for this condition, recommending 2 . 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
teplizumabTeplizumab for delaying the onset of stage 3 type 1 diabetes in people 8 years and over with stage 2 type 1 diabetes TA1176 recommended restricted 2026-07
hybrid closed loop systemsHybrid closed loop systems for managing blood glucose levels in type 1 diabetes TA943 recommended 2023-12

Registered, not subsidised

Medicines on the ARTG for this condition with no PBAC record at all. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions: a medicine can be legally available in Australia and never have been put to the committee.

MedicineOn the ARTG sinceRegistrations
insulinACTRAPID PENFILL human insulin (rys) 100IU/mL injection multidose cart 1991 13
insulin icodecAWIQLI insulin icodec 1050 U in 1.5 mL solution for injection pre-fill 2024 6

The ARTG export holds current registrations only, so the year is the earliest entry still on the register rather than a first-registration date. The condition here comes from the registered label, which is usually broader than the population a sponsor asks to have subsidised.

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 4 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.