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PHARMAC decision pending on life-changing diabetes medications
22 October 2020 - Government drug-funding agency PHARMAC is expected to decide next week whether it will fund two new ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Oct 2020
$10,000 on new drugs every four months keeps melanoma patient alive
21 October 2020 - Graham Venning was given “weeks perhaps months” to live at the start of the year but ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2020
Breakthrough drug would give child with cystic fibrosis a future
21 October 2020 - A 13 year-old boy with cystic fibrosis would have a much better quality and quantity of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Oct 2020
Welcome to the new PHARMAC.govt.nz
20 October 2020 - PHARMAC has upgraded the technology underlying its website. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Oct 2020
Prime Minister committed to PHARMAC investigation, but Health Minister at odds
15 October 2020 - On 30 September Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern committed to having an investigation into PHARMAC’s decision-making processes, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Oct 2020
COVID-19: New Zealand to buy 1.5 million doses of potential vaccine
12 October 2020 - The government has agreed to buy 1.5 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine from one of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2020
How patent law and medicine regulations could affect New Zealand's access to a COVID-19 vaccine
12 October 2020 - New Zealand has allocated an undisclosed sum, in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2020
PHARMAC apologises for contraceptive pill shortages
10 October 2020 - Pharmac is apologising to thousands of women who will be forced to change oral contraceptives because ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2020
Inaugural Chief Advisor, Māori appointed to PHARMAC
8 October 2020 - “PHARMAC is committed to upholding the articles of te Tiriti o Waitangi across all areas of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2020
PHARMAC confirms their new way of contracting for medicines
7 October 2020 - PHARMAC is standardising the way medicines are contracted, providing better support to health care professionals when ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Oct 2020
Proposal to transition funded access to dornase alfa to a standard Special Authority
2 October 2020 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to transition the process for obtaining funded access to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Oct 2020
Proposal to widen access to sirolimus for lymphovascular malformations and tuberous sclerosis complex complications
2 October 2020 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to widen funded access to sirolimus from 1 February ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2020
Proposal to decline inactive funding applications
1 October 2020 - To help make the decision-making process clearer, PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal for the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2020
Pharmacist prescribers able to prescribe special authority medicines
1 October 2020 - Some medicines are only funded under certain conditions to ensure access to medicines is available for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2020
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 October 2020
1 October 2020 - The October 2020 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...