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OIA response: effect of COVID-19 on medicine supply
14 May 2020 - PHARMAC responds to OIA request by releasing a raft of documents. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 May 2020
OIA response: medicines from China
11 May 2020 - PHARMAC responds as OIA request, dated 27 February 2020, asking for a list of medications made ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 May 2020
COVID-19: PHARMAC warns of significant shortage of surgery drug propofol
6 May 2020 - Hospitals already grappling with a backlog of about 30,000 elective surgeries are being urged to conserve ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Apr 2020
Influenza vaccinations for 2020
29 April 2020 - There will be 1.768 million doses of influenza vaccine available this flu season, a 30% (400,000 doses) ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Apr 2020
How medicine supplies are managed during COVID-19 crisis
28 April 2020 - During the COVID-19 outbreak, one of the things that has been top of mind for me ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Apr 2020
'Pharmacies run off their feet': people waiting days for prescriptions
17 April 2020 - Some patients are waiting days to have their prescriptions filled, with many community pharmacies struggling to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Apr 2020
Fluoxetine: supply issue
7 April 2020 - Supplies of fluoxetine capsules have arrived in New Zealand. It is awaiting release to wholesalers. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Apr 2020
COVID-19: shipment of anti-depressant drug fluoxetine held up by pandemic
4 April 2020 - An ongoing shortage of New Zealand's most common antidepressant during the COVID-19 lockdown has one psychiatrist ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Mar 2020
Change to monthly dispensing
27 March 2020 - PHARMAC has changed Pharmaceutical Schedule rules that restrict the dispensing of funded community medicines to just one ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2020
PHARMAC places temporary dispensing limits on all funded community medicines
26 March 2020 - PHARMAC is placing temporary dispensing limits on all funded community medicines from Friday 27 March 2020. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Mar 2020
COVID-19: sacubitril with valsartan (Entresto)
25 March 2020 - Sacubitril with valsartan is a medicine used in the management of clinically significant, treatment refractory heart ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 16 Mar 2020
Covid-19: medicine, vaccine supply disruptions likely - PHARMAC
16 March 2020 - Drug buying agency PHARMAC is warning further disruptions to medicine supplies are inevitable, as measures are taken ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Mar 2020
PHARMAC places temporary dispensing limits on paracetamol
6 March 2020 - PHARMAC is placing temporary dispensing limits on Government-funded paracetamol from Monday 9 March 2020. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Mar 2020
Restrictions to New Zealand's supply of drugs likely as coronavirus fears grow
4 March 2020 - New Zealand's drug buying agency PHARMAC says disruptions to the supply of some medicines are inevitable ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Mar 2020
Coronavirus (COVID-19): PHARMAC's response
2 March 2020 - With the outbreak of novel coronavirus, it’s inevitable that there will be disruptions to supply chains ...