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Supply a factor in restricting COVID vaccines for babies and toddlers
3 August 2022 - Most parents of babies and toddlers will not be able to access a COVID vaccine approved ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 Aug 2022
Changes to PBS listing of hydromorphone oral solution
1 August 2022 - Changes to the PBS listing of hydromorphone hydrochloride 1 mg/mL oral solution (473 mL) are being ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Jul 2022
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 ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2022
Aotearoa less affected by medicine supply issues than other countries
22 July 2022 - PHARMAC’s work behind the scenes and unique arrangements with suppliers means New Zealand has been less ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Jul 2022
‘Increasing problem’: Australia facing shortages of more than 320 medicines
21 July 2022 - More than 320 items are becoming hard to find as Australia faces increasing shortages in a crucial ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Jul 2022
World’s first chemo drone delivery announced on NHS birthday
5 July 2022 - NHS cancer patients will be the first in the world to benefit from chemotherapy delivered by ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Jun 2022
Update to continued dispensing arrangements
30 June 2022 - From 1 July 2022, on-going continued dispensing arrangements have been expanded to include additional medicines groups to ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Jun 2022
Accuretic supply issue, almost 36,000 New Zealanders taking the blood pressure medicine will need to change treatments
30 June 2022 - PHARMAC has updated health care professionals that supply of quinapril with hydrochlorothiazide (branded as Accuretic), from supplier ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Apr 2022
Arthritis patients suffer after medication diverted due to COVID-19
27 April 2022 - Rheumatoid arthritis sufferers have been left in pain as one of their medications was diverted for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2022
PHARMAC secures advance purchase agreement for a pre-exposure COVID-19 treatment
31 March 2022 - PHARMAC has negotiated an agreement with AstraZeneca for its pre-exposure prophylactic COVID-19 treatment, which would be targeted ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 30 Mar 2022
Pfizer’s oral COVID-19 treatment arrives in New Zealand
31 March 2022 - The first shipment of Pfizer’s new oral antiviral treatment for COVID-19, Paxlovid, has arrived in New ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Feb 2022
Pharmacist substitution of PBS medicines without a prescription during shortages (Serious Scarcity Substitution Instrument) - 8 February 2022
8 February 2022 - From 8 February 2022, abatacept syringe (Orencia) and abatacept auto-injector (Orencia ClickJect) can be interchangeably substituted ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 27 Jan 2022
Shortage of prescription infant formula worries parents
28 January 2022 - A shortage of prescription infant formula has parents worried about how they will feed their babies. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 24 Jan 2022
Novavax COVID-19 vaccine to be available in coming weeks
24 January 2022 - Australians aged 18+ will now have access to a fourth COVID-19 vaccine, Nuvaxovid (Novavax) in coming weeks, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 23 Jan 2022
Pharmacists struggle to meet demand for free COVID test kits amid stock shortage
23 January 2022 - Chemists across the country say they do not have enough rapid antigen tests to start handing ...