Senate debates
Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Questions without Notice
Health Care
2:30 pm
Stirling Griff (SA, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source
Minister, the TGA—and this would surprise a lot of people—only uses a paper based assessment for these devices and doesn't have an expert clinical committee to review the suitability of devices in Australian public hospitals. Can you provide, on notice, how many of these non-approved FDA export-only devices are currently in circulation in Australia and their average adverse event rate compared to the FDA fully approved devices?
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