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Internationally respected medical specialist slams PHARMAC, urges PM to investigate
30 September 2020 - In a blistering open letter to Prime Minister Ardern, world renowned expert in Crohn’s disease and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2020
ACT would ensure an independent review of PHARMAC
30 September 2020 - “ACT will seek an independent review of PHARMAC’s operating model to allow for greater transparency and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2020
Labour's promised PHARMAC boost 'not enough'
30 September 2020 - Palmerston North cancer patient Lydia Pei looks likely to have to depend on the community, not ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2020
Election campaign 2020: Jacinda Ardern unveils $1 billion health policy
29 September 2020 - Labour is promising to invest millions more in drug-buying agency PHARMAC and emergency dental care if ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Sep 2020
Couple move to America to afford life saving treatment
27 September 2020 - Joseph and Julie Moon are abandoning their dream lives in New Zealand, forced to return to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Sep 2020
Family's $50,000 cost for dad's life-extending bowel cancer medicine
17 September 2020 - With a supportive wife, five daughters and eight grandchildren, Tony Sullivan has something to fight for. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Sep 2020
Crohn's sufferers running out of treatment options lobby PHARMAC for new drugs
20 September 2020 - An 11 year-old could languish in pain and lose more of her bowel without a drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Sep 2020
Decision to fund an additional brand of budesonide with eformoterol
18 September 2020 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce a decision to fund an additional brand of budesonide with eformoterol ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Sep 2020
Proposal to fund emicizumab for people with haemophilia A
18 September 2020 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to fund emicizumab (Hemlibra), a new treatment for people with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2020
Rare Disorders New Zealand supports Human Rights Commission case against PHARMAC
17 September 2020 - Rare Disorders New Zealand supports patient advocate Fiona Tolich’s Human Rights Commission case against PHARMAC for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Sep 2020
Government throwing billions at COVID-19 but not doubling PHARMAC budget 'makes no sense' - Malcolm Mullholland
17 September 2020 - The PHARMAC model is broken, according to an advocate for increased access to life-saving drugs in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2020
If money is no longer an issue, I have one request - double the PHARMAC budget
16 September 2020 - Long live the year 2020 - said no one ever. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2020
The road ahead: 'What two more years of life could mean'
16 September 2020 - In May 2018, Mulholland was diagnosed with breast cancer. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2020
National's health policy - more money for PHARMAC, elective surgery guarantees
16 September 2020 - The National Party is promising record funding increases for PHARMAC, a new cancer agency, faster elective surgeries ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Sep 2020
Human Rights Commission grants case against PHARMAC for failing to fund rare muscular disorder drug
16 September 2020 - Newshub can reveal a ground-breaking Human Rights Commission case has been taken against Pharmac for failing ...