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New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 April 2019 update
1 April 2019 - The April 2019 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
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 28 Mar 2019
'Declare lung cancer national priority' - Lung Foundation NZ
28 March 2019 - The latest call for better cancer treatment funding has come from Lung Foundation New Zealand which ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2019
Whanganui District Health Board says small number of patients affects cancer treatment wait time results
28 March 2019 - Whanganui District Health Board failed to meet the national faster cancer treatment target in January. ...
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
PHARMAC defends not funding expensive breast cancer drugs
26 March 2019 - PHARMAC is defending their decision not to fund certain breast cancer drugs. ...
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 25 Mar 2019
Rotorua teacher needs $100k for cancer drug to live longer for his young sons
26 March 2019 - Trainee teacher Whitinga Harris was in a classroom at Western Heights Primary School in October last ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2019
Cancer patients wait up to 12 weeks for urgent treatment
26 March 2019 - Dozens of cancer sufferers are waiting more than two months for urgent treatment. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Mar 2019
Palmerston North mum appeals to PHARMAC for desperately needed drug
26 March 2019 - Wiki Mulholland, who has advanced breast cancer, is appealing to PHARMAC to get a $7,000 per month ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Mar 2019
Cancer Society slams PHARMAC's treatment of patients
20 March 2019 - The Cancer Society says New Zealand patients are worse off than those in Australia. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Mar 2019
Women with advanced breast cancer ask the PM to intervene
15 March 2019 - On Wednesday 13 March, ten women with advanced breast cancer presented to the Health Select Committee to ...
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 ...