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New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 July 2021 update
1 July 2021 - The July 2021 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jun 2021
Nurse prescribers now able to initiate Special Authority medicines
30 June 2021 - Joint media release with the Ministry of Health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jun 2021
Nib launches new product providing greater access to unfunded medicines
23 June 2021 - nib New Zealand has launched a new health insurance add-on which provides Kiwis with access to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jun 2021
Proposal for the supply of primidone and gabapentin
22 June 2021 - PHARMAC is seeking additional feedback on a proposal to change the funded brands of primidone tablets ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Jun 2021
Uptake of medicines for type 2 diabetes mellitus
15 June 2021 - Empagliflozin (with and without metformin hydrochloride) has been funded since 1 February 2021. It is funded for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jun 2021
PHARMAC’s decision over diabetes drugs could see up to 140,000 ‘miss out’, doctor says
11 June 2021 - Dr John Baker, the chair of the Diabetes Foundation Aotearoa, says that has to change and highlights ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jun 2021
Stop blaming PHARMAC - we'd be worse off without it
10 June 2021 - Penny Tucker is concerned that there are “miracle drugs and biologics that have transformed many conditions ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jun 2021
Robertson says PHARMAC's bulk buying model is 'different', not 'worse' than other OECD countries
8 June 2021 - The Deputy Prime Minister says the agency’s bulk buying model works for many Kiwis. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Jun 2021
'We're not just all about the money' — PHARMAC defends why it still won't fund drug for rare children's disorder
3 June 2021 - Under-fire PHARMAC is defending the way it funds New Zealand's drugs, with the agency's director of operations, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jun 2021
PHARMAC works well. Unless you’re sick.
2 June 2021 - Nearly two decades ago, in Washington DC, a group of consultants, lobbyists, lawyers and pharmaceutical industry ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Jun 2021
PHARMAC petition tabled at Parliament
1 June 2021 - A petition with more than 100,000 signatures has today been tabled at Parliament after being accepted ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 May 2021
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 June 2021 update
1 June 2021 - The June 2021 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 May 2021
Apotex medicines in New Zealand
31 May 2021 - Apotex has announced that it is leaving the New Zealand market. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 May 2021
PHARMAC funding will result in health poverty: advocate
30 May 2021 - A Dunedin patient rights campaigner is vowing to fight on in the wake of the Government’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 May 2021
Jacinda Ardern listening to calls for PHARMAC to fund 13 year old's life-changing drugs, but nothing she can do
25 May 2021 - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says she's listening to calls for life-changing drugs to be made more ...