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PHARMAC removes dispensing restrictions' - now distributing three months' supply
30 July 2020 - The majority of the temporary dispensing restrictions placed upon Government-funded medicine will be removed on Saturday. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jul 2020
Proposal to fund an additional brand of budesonide with eformoterol
30 July 2020 - PHARMAC is seeking feedback on a proposal to fund an additional brand (DuoResp Spiromax) of two ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jul 2020
Paracetamol: supply issue
28 July 2020 - API Consumer Brands has advised PHARMAC that they continue to have a supply issue for Pharmacare paracetamol ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Jul 2020
PHARMAC report: should rich people get subsidised medicine?
29 July 2020 - Should wealthy New Zealanders have access to subsidised medicines when they could be investing in better ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jul 2020
Mother of teen with cystic fibrosis pleads for PHARMAC to fund new medication
26 July 2020 - Seventeen-year-old Rotorua teenager Osiris Daniels has been living in isolation his entire life, a necessary requirement ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2020
Epilepsy medicine linked to deaths not same as previous funded drug — advocacy group
22 July 2020 - Testing commissioned by Patient Voice Aotearoa, a patient advocacy group, shows the three medicines given in New ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2020
COVID-19: PHARMAC warns pandemic could disrupt supply of paracetamol, other medicines
21 July 2020 - PHARMAC warns the COVID-19 pandemic could disrupt not only the supply of paracetamol, but other medications ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2020
PHARMAC, COVID-19 health response get slice of $302 million fund
21 July 2020 - Minister of Health Chris Hipkins has announced a financial boost for public health services, setting aside more ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Jul 2020
Grieving families lobby Parliament to reverse epilepsy drug brand switch
21 July 2020 - It has been more than nine months since PHARMAC switched to funding epilepsy drug Logem – a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Jul 2020
Paracetamol 500 mg tablets in short supply at pharmacies
17 July 2020 - PHARMAC has today updated health care professionals that paracetamol 500 mg tablets for dispensing in pharmacies ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Jul 2020
'Life-changing' drug not accessible for New Zealanders living with cystic fibrosis
17 July 2020 - For Chantelle de Kort, her biggest hope for the future is that she will get to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2020
PHARMAC asks COVID-19 vaccine developers to let Kiwi businesses make doses under contract in New Zealand
14 July 2020 - PHARMAC has sent a “shout out to the world” as a step towards securing its share ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2020
Proposed changes to PHARMAC model could ease brand switch issues
14 July 2020 - The way New Zealand secures its medicines could be changing, as the Government’s drug buying agency ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jul 2020
Doctors and patients anxious after pharma giant Apotex quits New Zealand
13 July 2020 - A patient advocate group says a pharmaceutical giant's decision to pull out of the New Zealand ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jul 2020
Request for information - COVID-19 vaccine research, manufacture and supply
13 July 2020 - PHARMAC, on behalf of the New Zealand Government COVID-19 vaccine strategy task force, is seeking information regarding ...