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Children, parents protest PHARMAC funding review at Parliament
14 December 2022 - A petition calling on PHARMAC to "fund lifesaving medicines for all New Zealand children" has been ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Dec 2022
PHARMAC to fund the EpiPen for severe allergies
15 December 2022 - PHARMAC has confirmed today that it will be fully funding the EpiPen brand of adrenaline auto ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Dec 2022
PHARMAC petition: fear tamariki with cancer won’t have access to lifesaving medicines
13 December 2022 - A petition, that will be delivered tomorrow to Parliament, on behalf of Tamariki with cancer, chronic ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2022
Lives will continue to be lost to meningococcal disease as PHARMAC funding for vaccines does not go far enough
8 December 2022 - Meningitis Foundation says PHARMAC must make both the meningococcal B and ACWY vaccines available to all ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Dec 2022
Miracle medicines: a cancer specialist sends a message to PHARMAC
11 December 2022 - Let's make one thing crystal clear: effective chemotherapeutic drugs make a tremendous difference to survival outcomes ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2022
PHARMAC funds more medicines for New Zealanders
8 December 2022 - PHARMAC has today announced decisions to fund two new medicines and widen access to one other. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2022
Migraine Foundation submits application to PHARMAC to fund Emgality
5 December 2022 - Migraine Foundation Aotearoa New Zealand has submitted a consumer application to Pharmac to fund Emgality (galcanezumab) for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Dec 2022
PHARMAC and a very curious case of media management
6 December 2022 - PHARMAC’s funding of Trikafta is a huge win for people with cystic fibrosis. But the media management ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Dec 2022
PHARMAC seeking feedback on funding Trikafta
4 December 2022 - PHARMAC has reached a provisional agreement with medicine supplier Vertex to fund Trikafta. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Dec 2022
‘Good news’ for Kiwi women as PHARMAC funds Utrogestan from today
1 December 2022 - The end of a decade long wait. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Nov 2022
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 December 2022
1 December 2022 - The December 2022 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Nov 2022
The Government may have taken money from the DHB hospital budget to increase PHARMAC's funding
30 November 2022 - In this year’s budget, the Government said it has increased PHARMAC's funding by 43% over the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Nov 2022
The cruellest tax: clipping the ticket on unfunded cancer drugs
28 November 2022 - Jo McKenzie-McLean’s life was turned upside down after a stage 4 bowel cancer diagnosis. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Nov 2022
GPs can't prescribe ADHD medication, some say that's a problem
24 November 2022 - When Ben Mitchell was first diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), he waited four months to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Nov 2022
Kiwi myeloma cancer sufferers don’t have access to daratumumab, a drug available in Australia
21 November 2022 - Kiwi cancer sufferers are being denied a drug that saves lives in other countries, including Australia ...