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Impacts to medicine supply from India
12 May 2021 - PHARMAC is in constant contact with our suppliers as the impact of COVID-19 on India unfolds. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 May 2021
Protest calls for more drug spending
9 May 2021 - Patients’ rights advocates will lie down on the job, as part of a nationwide day of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2021
'Intimidating' PHARMAC move may lead to child cancer drug delays
6 May 2021 - Two of New Zealand's leading cancer experts have slammed PHARMAC's proposal to take away the special exemption ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 May 2021
PHARMAC asked to fund drug for children with spinal muscular atrophy after it changes four year old's life
5 May 2021 - Four year old Charlotte Bond couldn’t roll over by herself two years ago. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2021
New Zealand ‘falling behind’ in lung cancer treatment
4 May 2021 - New Zealand employs a third world approach to the detection, treatment and care of lung cancer, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 May 2021
Andrew Little not pleased with Children's Commissioner comments on potential PHARMAC move
4 May 2021 - Heath Minister Andrew Little says he expects better of the Children's Commissioner after he described a potential ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2021
Children's Commissioner worried PHARMAC will cut children's access to cancer drugs
4 May 2021 - Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft is warning PHARMAC not to play one group of children with a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2021
PHARMAC likely to end blanket funding for kids’ cancer drugs
3 May 2021 - A woman trying to get drugs funded for young spinal muscular atrophy patients was horrified when PHARMAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 May 2021
PHARMAC's budget hole hundreds of millions of dollars deep
29 April 2021 - For the first time, the Government's drug-buying agency has released figures about its 'options for investment' ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 May 2021
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 May 2021 update
1 May 2021 - The May 2021 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Apr 2021
New Zealand's vaccination program is built on Pfizer and a plan to take it slow
27 April 2021 - All New Zealanders are likely to get the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and that clarity has generated a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2021
Major missed opportunity on PHARMAC reform
21 April 2021 - “Pharmaceutical funding was totally absent from today’s health review, and that’s about where it is in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Apr 2021
Major health sector shake-up: Government scraps all district health boards in favour of one national authority
21 April 2021 - All of New Zealand's 20 District Health Boards will be replaced by one, single national health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Apr 2021
Easier access to rare metabolic disorder treatments
14 April 2021 - PHARMAC is making it easier for clinicians to access six treatments for rare metabolic disorders for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Apr 2021
Masterton woman feels abandoned after medical funding rejected
9 April 2021 - Masterton's Allyson Lock feels she is not part of the "team of five million" after her ...