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5 July 2024 - PHARMAC is looking to widen access to four medicines as part of the first public consultation ...

1 July 2024 - July 2024 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...

25 June 2024 - Advocates of cancer patients say PHARMAC is now “on notice” to deliver the 26 Government-funded cancer ...

24 June 2024 - PHARMAC welcomes the Government’s funding boost which will see about 175,000 more people receiving the medicines they ...

20 June 2024 - There is a danger cancer patients are being overlooked in the political points-scoring that has arisen ...

19 June 2024 - The minister responsible for New Zealand’s drugbuying agency PHARMAC is at odds with the Minister of ...

18 June 2024 - PHARMAC has changed the criteria for two breast cancer medicines which means people with a particular ...

11 June 2024 - The National Party has stepped outside of the drug procurement process when they promised to fund ...

4 June 2024 - Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says the government is aiming to make an announcement on funding cancer ...

6 June 2024 - More pressure has come on the Government over PHARMAC funding as an alliance of haematologists and ...

1 June 2024 - The June 2024 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...

30 May 2024 - A cancer patient is disappointed with a lack of funding for new medicines in Budget 2024, ...

28 May 2024 - Act MP Todd Stephenson is selling his investments in drug companies while labelling as “outrageous” claims ...

18 May 2024 - The shortage of hormone replacement therapy patches is getting worse, and PHARMAC has been too slow ...