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PHARMAC review: 'Damning' interim report reveals 'fortress mentality', Māori, equity progress slow
2 December 2021 - An interim report of a major PHARMAC review has slated the Government drug buying agency over ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2021
PHARMAC welcomes interim report
2 December 2021 - PHARMAC accepts many of the observations made in the Interim Report and is already making changes ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Nov 2021
Government makes a mockery of PHARMAC review
3 November 2021 - “The ACT Party can today reveal the review into PHARMAC has been delayed by more than ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Nov 2021
Major PHARMAC review delayed nearly 3 months
3 November 2021 - A major review into Government drug buying agency PHARMAC has been delayed by nearly three months. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2021
Where is the PHARMAC Review Panel’s interim report?
12 October 2021 - Patient advocacy groups and clinicians are calling out the PHARMAC Review Panel for failing to get their ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Oct 2021
OIA documents prove PHARMAC's independent inquiry is a toothless whitewash
11 October 2021 - Following a damning survey of PHARMAC, National can also reveal documents received under OIA show the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Oct 2021
Where has PHARMAC gone?
7 October 2021 - As debate has intensified over the last year or so about the procurement of New Zealand’s ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Sep 2021
Covid-19 delta outbreak: major PHARMAC review report delayed by lockdown
22 September 2021 - Act says it is "not good enough" an interim report for a much touted independent PHARMAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Apr 2021
Major health sector shake-up: Government scraps all district health boards in favour of one national authority
21 April 2021 - All of New Zealand's 20 District Health Boards will be replaced by one, single national health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Mar 2021
PHARMAC review misses political elephant in the room
13 March 2021 - The governments of many developed nations fund medicines for their citizens after they have gone through independent ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Mar 2021
Pacific pharmacists want inclusion on PHARMAC review
6 March 2021 - The President of the Pacific Pharmacists’Association, Kasey Brown, says a review of New Zealand’s drug buying ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Mar 2021
Cancer Society says PHARMAC review doesn't go far enough
3 March 2021 - A review of drug buying agency PHARMAC is being described as long overdue. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Mar 2021
The PHARMAC non-review?
4 March 2021 - The recently announced PHARMAC review is fatally flawed. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Mar 2021
PHARMAC ripe for reassessment
3 March 2021 - New Zealand’s drug buying agency PHARMAC has long been, simultaneously, a good thing in itself and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Mar 2021
Government announces review into PHARMAC
2 March 2021 - The Government is following through on an election promise to conduct an independent review into PHARMAC, ...