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Proposal to award sole supply for fluticasone and fluticasone with salmeterol metered dose inhalers
21 October 2019 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to make changes to the funded brands of fluticasone ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Oct 2019
PHARMAC publishes draft agenda for November 2019 PTAC meeting
18 October 2019 - Eight agenda items; not one new medicine/product. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Oct 2019
Deputy Prime Minister admits PHARMAC needs more money
16 October 2019 - Patient Voice Aotearoa welcomes the comments made by the Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters on ‘The Project’ ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Oct 2019
IUD appointments booked out until 2020 after PHARMAC announces funding
16 October 2019 - Family Planning says demand for the newly funded Mirena and Jaydess contraceptives is so high, the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Oct 2019
21,000 to benefit from Mirena and Jaydess
14 October 2019 - PHARMAC is widening funded access to Mirena, as well as listing a new long-acting reversible contraceptive ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Oct 2019
'I'm not ready to bring her back' - NZ not safe for three-year-old with motor neuron disease, mum says
10 October 2019 - Three-year-old New Zealander Charlotte Bond is showing signs she may walk again on her own with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2019
Cancer patients to benefit from new PHARMAC funded drugs
8 October 2019 - Cancer patient advocates are welcoming PHARMAC's decision to pay for two new drugs but say New Zealand ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Oct 2019
Proposal to increase the subsidy for hexamine hippurate tablets and for flecainide acetate injection
8 October 2019 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to increase the subsidy payable for two currently funded ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2019
New PHARMAC drug funding approved but some New Zealanders still missing out
8 October 2019 - A Motueka woman living with multiple sclerosis is vowing to fight for access to a drug ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2019
'Left on the scrapheap': PHARMAC decision bittersweet for MS patients
7 October 2019 - A Motueka grandmother says the national drug-buying agency is abandoning her on the scrapheap with "inhumane" ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2019
Jacinda Ardern hails 'exciting phase' of cancer research as PHARMAC funds three new drugs
7 October 2019 - The $40 million boost to PHARMAC's funding has paid for three new medicines to be available ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2019
PHARMAC signs bundle deal for more cancer medicines
7 October 2019 - 420 New Zealanders with lung cancer, breast cancer, multiple sclerosis and respiratory disease will benefit each ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Oct 2019
Concern proposed bill may make cancer medication unaffordable for Kiwis
7 October 2019 - Every three months, a package containing cancer medication arrives at Trevor Gately's Nelson home from India. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Oct 2019
Mum 'hopeful' after baby Kaan Hunter starts $250k a year medication for rare bone disease
5 October 2019 - A mum whose baby was the first Kiwi to be diagnosed with a rare bone disease ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Oct 2019
Lamotrigine brand change from today
1 October 2019 - From today there will be one funded brand of lamotrigine - a medicine used to treat ...