Access criteria for new COVID-19 treatment announced

25 August 2022 - PHARMAC has today confirmed the access criteria for the first preventative medicine for COVID-19, tixagevimab and cilgavimab ...

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Monkeypox vaccines not expected until December

20 August 2022 - Monkeypox vaccines aren't expected to arrive in New Zealand until December, according to PHARMAC. ...

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PHARMAC makes cancer treatment available to more people

18 August 2022 - PHARMAC has confirmed today they are widening access from 1 September 2022 to a targeted cancer treatment, ...

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PHARMAC estimates Trikafta could give people with CF another 27 years

17 August 2022 - PHARMAC has today published the record of advice from the May PTAC meeting to again consider ...

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Calls for decision on Trikafta as new advice shows health system savings and decades more life for patients

15 August 2022 - Pressure is mounting on the Government to make a decision on whether it will fund the ...

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PHARMAC shares update on its assessment of Trikafta

15 August 2022 - PHARMAC has today published the latest record of advice from PTAC and, for the first time, has ...

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The situation in New Zealand can only be described as dire

11 August 2022 - The available evidence for 2022 suggests the innovative pharmaceutical industry has very little interested in preparing/lodging ...

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Has the innovative pharmaceutical industry essential given up trying to list new medicines in New Zealand?

10 August 2022 - Upon examining the agenda for this month's PTAC meeting, one would think that it has. ...

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New Zealand allowed pharmacists to dispense COVID-19 antivirals and 'everyone realised it was a win'

6 August 2022 - With Australians dying from COVID-19 every day and nearly 5,000 people in hospital with the disease, experts ...

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PHARMAC tells MPs medicine buying agency undergoing 'substantial change'

3 August 2022 - PHARMAC has undergone “substantial change” in the past few years, even before a hard hitting review ...

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PHARMAC scrutiny a win for transparency

2 August 2022 - “PHARMAC’s appearance before the Health Select Committee tomorrow morning is a triumph for transparency and the ...

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Mum fears dance loving toddler will lose ability to walk without unfunded drug

1 August 2022 - An Auckland toddler who loves to dance may soon be unable to walk or stand if ...

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New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 August 2022

1 August 2022 - The August 2022 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...

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45 medicines affected by supply issues as COVID causes 'unprecedented challenge'

27 July 2022 - In the past month,  New Zealand has been hit by medicine supply issues affecting large swathes ...

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Barriers to accessing life-saving overdose reversal medicine are putting Kiwis at risk - NZ Drug Foundation

21 July 2022 - The lethal drug fentanyl has been found in New Zealand, prompting warnings that the country isn't ...

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