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Proposal for funding of oncology, multiple sclerosis and respiratory treatments
7 August 2019 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to fund three new treatments and widen access to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2019
Cancer drug advocate holds back tears pleading for PHARMAC funding boost
7 August 2019 - National MP Maggie Barry is promising cancer drug advocates she will continue to push for an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2019
Proposals for funding in the immunosuppressant, cardiovascular and anti-nausea therapeutic areas
6 August 2019 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on proposals for widening access to medicines in the immunosuppressant, cardiovascular and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Aug 2019
Cancer treatment campaigner urges Government to double PHARMAC's funding
5 August 2019 - A cancer treatment campaigner is calling for the Government to double PHARMAC's funding as his wife ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jul 2019
Proposals for funding in the immunosuppressant, oncology, vasodilator and smoking cessation therapeutic areas
11 July 2019 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on proposals for funding in the immunosuppressant, oncology, vasodilator and smoking cessation ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2019
Opposition turns its sights on PHARMAC funding
18 June 2019 - Opposition politicians have turned their sights on what they say is an embarrassingly small funding increase ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Jun 2019
Health Minister concedes DHBs are under pressure - 'I want to put more money in'
18 June 2019 - Health Minister David Clark has refused to be drawn on whether district health boards are underfunded, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jun 2019
Rotorua toddler faces being 'trapped in his own body', parents plead for Spinraza drug funding
5 June 2019 - The last time the Rotorua Daily Post spoke to Rotorua mum Anna Sutherland, her son Heath ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 May 2019
PHARMAC fails to score major funding boost in NZ budget
30 May 2019 - Major new funding for mental health but not for medicines; face of Wellbeing budget has given ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 May 2019
PHARMAC head defends drug agency's funding
28 May 2019 - PHARMAC is under intense pressure from clinicians, health advocacy groups and patients to fund more medicines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 May 2019
PHARMAC playing 'money game' by not funding drug 49 other countries back - campaigner
27 May 2019 - Pharmac is playing a "money game" while patients are dying, an advocate for a patient group ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 May 2019
PHARMAC switches epilepsy drug against Medsafe advice
27 May 2019 - PHARMAC is making 10,000 people with epilepsy change medication even though Medsafe opposed the move. Guyon Espiner ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 May 2019
Drugs and money
24 May 2019 - An extra $60 million for PHARMAC over the next four years will benefit more than 30,000 New ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 May 2019
Guyon Espiner investigates PHARMAC: the secret list
24 May 2019 - Desperate patients are being left in the dark as to when PHARMAC will fund medicines. Guyon Espiner ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 May 2019
'It’s absurd' - allergy sufferers beg PHARMAC to fund EpiPens
13 May 2019 - An ice cream factory in the family sounds like every child’s dream. But for Dylan Wright, just ...