The purpose of this fact sheet is to help cancer patients, their families, carers or volunteers understand what to expect from a health service providing people with medications for cancer.

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Technical note on the antimicrobial medicines dispensing report 2013-14 to 2017-18.

This file contains rates for those SA3s that fall in the top 10% or bottom 10% of all SA3s for each of the five years for these indicators:

• Number of PBS/RPBS prescriptions dispensed for antimicrobials per 100,000 people, 2013–14 to 2017–18
• Number of PBS/RPBS prescriptions dispensed for amoxicillin per 100,000 people, 2013–14 to 2017–18 
• Number of PBS/RPBS prescriptions dispensed for amoxicillin-clavulanate per 100,000 people, 2013–14 to 2017–18 

This file contains rates by SA3 by PHN and rates by PHN for these indicators:

• Number of PBS/RPBS prescriptions dispensed for antimicrobial medicines per 100,000 people, all ages, 2017–18
• Number of PBS/RPBS prescriptions dispensed for amoxicillin per 100,000 people, all ages, 2017–18
• Number of PBS/RPBS prescriptions dispensed for amoxicillin-clavulanate per 100,000 people, all ages, 2017–18