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19 June 2024 - The minister responsible for New Zealand’s drugbuying agency PHARMAC is at odds with the Minister of ...

11 June 2024 - The National Party has stepped outside of the drug procurement process when they promised to fund ...

4 June 2024 - Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the government is aiming to make an announcement on funding cancer ...

6 June 2024 - More pressure has come on the Government over PHARMAC funding as an alliance of haematologists and ...

30 May 2024 - A cancer patient is disappointed with a lack of funding for new medicines in Budget 2024, ...

23 April 2024 - PHARMAC is proposing to fund more treatments for people with a type of blood cancer, multiple ...

2 April 2024 - Breast cancer experts have urged PHARMAC to fast-track the drug Keytruda, for Kiwis with an aggressive ...

27 March 2024 - PHARMAC is funding two new cancer treatments, one for advanced breast cancer (ribociclib succinate) and one ...

23 February 2024 - A West Coast dad is receiving “outdated treatment” for his leukaemia because PHARMAC’s policies are blocking ...

23 February 2024 - Late last year, many of my colleagues returned from the largest international gathering of doctors who ...

14 February 2024 - PHARMAC is funding two new cancer treatments, for advanced breast cancer, and for blood cancer, which will ...

11 February 2024 - Multiple myeloma, a common blood cancer, is incurable, but can be survived for years with the right ...

21 December 2023 - An Auckland man has resorted to treatment for an aggressive bone marrow cancer in Germany after ...

12 December 2023 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to fund two new treatments for advanced breast cancer and ...