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COVID-19: New Zealand to buy 1.5 million doses of potential vaccine
12 October 2020 - The government has agreed to buy 1.5 million doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine from one of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2020
How patent law and medicine regulations could affect New Zealand's access to a COVID-19 vaccine
12 October 2020 - New Zealand has allocated an undisclosed sum, in the order of hundreds of millions of dollars, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2020
PHARMAC apologises for contraceptive pill shortages
10 October 2020 - Pharmac is apologising to thousands of women who will be forced to change oral contraceptives because ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Oct 2020
PHARMAC confirms their new way of contracting for medicines
7 October 2020 - PHARMAC is standardising the way medicines are contracted, providing better support to health care professionals when ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Oct 2020
Proposal to transition funded access to dornase alfa to a standard Special Authority
2 October 2020 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to transition the process for obtaining funded access to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Oct 2020
Proposal to widen access to sirolimus for lymphovascular malformations and tuberous sclerosis complex complications
2 October 2020 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to widen funded access to sirolimus from 1 February ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2020
Proposal to decline inactive funding applications
1 October 2020 - To help make the decision-making process clearer, PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal for the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Oct 2020
Pharmacist prescribers able to prescribe special authority medicines
1 October 2020 - Some medicines are only funded under certain conditions to ensure access to medicines is available for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2020
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 October 2020
1 October 2020 - The October 2020 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2020
Internationally respected medical specialist slams PHARMAC, urges PM to investigate
30 September 2020 - In a blistering open letter to Prime Minister Ardern, world renowned expert in Crohn’s disease and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Sep 2020
ACT would ensure an independent review of PHARMAC
30 September 2020 - “ACT will seek an independent review of PHARMAC’s operating model to allow for greater transparency and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2020
Labour's promised PHARMAC boost 'not enough'
30 September 2020 - Palmerston North cancer patient Lydia Pei looks likely to have to depend on the community, not ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2020
Election campaign 2020: Jacinda Ardern unveils $1 billion health policy
29 September 2020 - Labour is promising to invest millions more in drug-buying agency PHARMAC and emergency dental care if ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Sep 2020
Family's $50,000 cost for dad's life-extending bowel cancer medicine
17 September 2020 - With a supportive wife, five daughters and eight grandchildren, Tony Sullivan has something to fight for. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Sep 2020
Crohn's sufferers running out of treatment options lobby PHARMAC for new drugs
20 September 2020 - An 11 year-old could languish in pain and lose more of her bowel without a drug ...