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Why PHARMAC should fund SMA drug
14 April 2019 - How must it feel to make decisions upon which lives depend? ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Apr 2019
Lung Foundation launches petition for more PHARMAC funding
14 April 2019 - There's the story of the 38-year-old solo mother of a teenager, the 68-year-old healthy grandmother of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Apr 2019
Duncan Garner complains to Chief Ombudsman Peter Boshier on air about breast cancer drug funding
11 April 2019 - The AM Show host Duncan Garner has complained to the Chief Ombudsman live on air about ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Apr 2019
More funding sought for lung cancer treatments
9 April 2019 - Lung cancer patients are not getting a fair go, says the New Zealand Lung Foundation. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Apr 2019
Greater flexibility needed by PHARMAC to fund new medicines, including cancer drug - expert
8 April 2019 - The fight continues in New Zealand for funding of a life-prolonging drug that targets advanced breast ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Mar 2019
Major incorrect fact in the Annual Review of PHARMAC
28 March 2019 - Today the Health Select Committee released their 2017/2018 Annual Review of PHARMAC. Sadly, and disappointingly, it ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2019
Cancer advocate: PHARMAC is 'compromised' by limited spending
27 March 2019 - Malcolm Mulholland says he has been told that oncologists advising PHARMAC feel uncomfortable with their practices. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2019
Cancer Society critical of PHARMAC saying they 'lack accountability, lack transparency, are slow'
26 March 2019 - PHARMAC "lack accountability, lack transparency, are slow", in delivering pharmaceutical drugs to New Zealanders who need ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Mar 2019
Terminal breast cancer patients push for PHARMAC inquiry and the funding of life-preserving drugs
13 March 2019 - Crowd-funding website Givealittle shouldn't be used to plug the gaps in Government drug-buying agency Pharmac's provisions ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Mar 2019
PHARMAC funding should be doubled - breast cancer advocate
13 March 2019 - A breast cancer advocate believes PHARMAC needs to have its funding doubled to better serve New ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Mar 2019
Women with advanced breast cancer ask health select committee for PHARMAC review
13 March 2019 - Ten women today spoke one after the other, telling a committee of MPs how desperately they ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Mar 2019
Decision to make changes to funded haemophilia treatments
8 March 2019 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce changes to funded haemophilia treatments that will result in two new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Feb 2019
Time for inquiry into PHARMAC's funding of cancer drugs
4 February 2019 - Labour promised voters world class cancer care but, of all the rocks I've looked under, I ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Jan 2019
Decision to open access to atomoxetine and change funded brand
31 January 2019 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce that all funding restrictions on atomoxetine will be removed from 1 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jan 2019
Proposal for changes to funded haemophilia treatments
29 January 2019 - PHARMAC is proposing to make changes to the funding of haemophilia treatments from 1 May 2019, ...