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NICE publishes final appraisal determination for Alecensa
8 August 2018 - The determination relates to the use of alectinib hydrochloride for the first-line treatment of patients with untreated ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Aug 2018
UK unveils plans for bigger medicines price squeeze
7 August 2018 - Company payments to government would rise steeply to 2021. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Aug 2018
Comparing the ICERs in medicine reimbursement submissions to NICE and PBAC—does the presence of an explicit threshold affect the ICER proposed?
8 August 2018 - The English NICE and the Australian PBAC require evidence that a new medicine represents value for money ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
NZ's cancer death rates worse than Australia's due to medicine inaccessibility - oncologist
7 August 2018 - The number of cancer deaths may increase if the country's approach to the disease isn't urgently ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
‘Survival of the richest’: Rich access drugs PHARMAC won’t fund
7 August 2018 - Oncologists including the cancer society's top doctor say the government's drug agency, PHARMAC, is failing to keep ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
Health insurance discounts will benefit only the young rich: consumer groups
7 August 2018 - The proposed private health insurance discounts for young people will benefit only rich young people and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
PHARMAC takes three years to review brand-new cancer drugs and Kiwis are missing out
7 August 2018 - Kiwis are missing out on the latest cancer treatments because the government's drug agency, PHARMAC, is ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
Government looks to include biosimilars in price controls
7 August 2018 - The government has launched consultation on proposed changes to the statutory scheme for pharmaceutical pricing that ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Aug 2018
Health insurance needs in-depth scrutiny in the public interest
7 August 2018 - Discounts on health insurance premiums for young people under 30 would erode the community-sharing principles of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2018
Division on European HTA
3 August 2018 - There have been aspirations for closer collaboration between European Union Member States on health technology assessment for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2018
Glatect, alternative to Copaxone, added to public health plans of 5 Canadian provinces
6 August 2018 - Pendopharm’s Glatect (glatiramer acetate injection), a lower cost alternative to Teva’s Copaxone, has been added to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2018
Government urged to dump 'flawed' health insurance discount plan for young people
7 August 2018 - The federal government is being urged to scrap its plan to allow health insurance companies to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2018
Private Health Insurance 'excluding benefits under the radar'
4 August 2018 - Doctors are warning that the federal government's private health insurance reforms may push patients onto public ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2018
Duncan Garner's desperate plea to Jacinda Ardern over cancer funding
7 August 2018 - "There are people dying, mums and dads and brothers and sisters." ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Aug 2018
Supply of anti-retroviral treatments
6 August 2018 - PHARMAC invites tenders for the supply of certain antiretroviral treatments to DHB hospitals and to community pharmacies ...