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Electronic prescriptions to revolutionise health care
29 July 2020 - Patients will soon be able to have a script issued and filled without leaving their homes, with ...
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 29 Jul 2020
Sanofi and GSK agree with the UK government to supply up to 60 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine
29 July 2020 - Both companies are committed to making their COVID-19 vaccine candidate affordable and available globally. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Jul 2020
Pandemic creating potential for drug shortages that Canada isn't equipped to deal with
22 July 2020 - Canada needs to become self-reliant in developing and supplying its own critical drugs, vaccines. ...
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 20 Jul 2020
Government signs deals with BioNTech/Pfizer and Valneva for COVID vaccines
20 July 2020 - The Government has signed new deals with BioNTech/Pfizer and Valneva for access to 90 million doses ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Jul 2020
US purchases world stocks of remdesivir: why the rest of the world should be glad to be at the back of the queue
18 July 2020 - The remdesivir story may actually be good news for the rest of the world. ...
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 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
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Jul 2020
PHARMAC to remove medicine dispensing restrictions
9 July 2020 - Most funded medicines will return to all at once dispensing because PHARMAC is removing most of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Jul 2020
A million Kiwis to be impacted by major pharmaceutical company leaving New Zealand
3 July 2020 - More than a million Kiwis may need to change to different medications before the end of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Jul 2020
PHARMAC says US can't prevent us accessing medicines
2 July 2020 - PHARMAC is reassuring the country that the United States can't stop us from accessing medications. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jun 2020
Expansion of continued dispensing arrangements – COVID-19
1 July 2020 - The Australian Government has extended the temporary Continued Dispensing (Emergency Measures) for three months to 30 September ...