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Private health insurers under pressure to limit premium rises and be more transparent
31 October 2017 - Private health insurers are under pressure to limit their annual fee increases to the Consumer Price ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Oct 2017
Fund for next generation medicines investigated
1 November 2017 - A fund to give Kiwis quicker access to new-generation medicines will be investigated by the Government, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Oct 2017
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 November 2017
1 November 2017 - The November 2017 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Oct 2017
Proposal to widen access to zoledronic acid for early breast cancer
31 October 2017 - PHARMAC proposes to widen funded access to zoledronic to include adjuvant use in post-menopausal women with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2017
Patient centred care is missing in action in Australia
30 October 2017 - The success of modern medicine is popularly seen in terms of hospitals and life-saving surgery. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2017
Bernie Sanders lauds Canadian health care system in Toronto speech
30 October 2017 - Canada's health care system is a remarkable political accomplishment that bucks a growing global trend toward ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2017
Predictive validation and the re-analysis of cost-effectiveness: do we dare to tread?
30 October 2017 - Predictive validation (also known as fourth-order validation) involves the comparison between model outputs and observed data ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2017
Experts slam 'utterly false' claims Australians given budget flu vaccine
30 October 2017 - Australia's Chief Medical Officer has stridently rejected claims a "budget" flu vaccine was partly responsible for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Oct 2017
Media statement - flu vaccines
30 October 2017 - Media statement from Australia's Chief Medical Officer, Professor Brendan Murphy regarding media claims about flu vaccines. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Oct 2017
In search of a common currency: a comparison of seven EQ-5D-5L value sets
24 October 2017 - The recently published EQ-5D-5L value sets from Canada, England, Japan, Korea, the Netherlands, Spain, and Uruguay are ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Oct 2017
Public summary documents - July 2017 PBAC meeting
27 October 2017 - The public summary documents (positive recommendations and subsequent decisions not to recommend) from the July 2017 PBAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2017
Exploration and preferential ranking of patient benefits of medical devices: a new and generic instrument for health economic assessments
25 October 2017 - For medical devices, benefits other than direct clinical effects may have a large impact on the patients’ ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2017
Taking patient heterogeneity and preferences into account in health technology assessments
25 October 2017 - The INTEGRATE-HTA project provided methodology to evaluate complex technologies. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Oct 2017
Call for anti-HIV drug to be funded
26 October 2017 - The AIDS Foundation says it's a fiscal no-brainier to fully fund a drug that prevents the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Oct 2017
Better health care helps fiscal health
24 October 2017 - The Treasurer’s recognition of the importance to the economy of integrated, patient-centred health care injects fresh ...