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Early benefit assessment for new drugs 2021: G-BA sets a record with 146 completed procedures
10 January 2022 - At the beginning of the year, the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) took stock of its assessment of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Dec 2021
PHARMAC’s year in review
20 December 2021 - Today PHARMAC has released its Year in Review for 2021, an annual publication highlighting key aspects of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2021
Shining a light on PHARMAC
6 December 2021 - It is encouraging to read the country’s drug buying agency PHARMAC is already moving to improve ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Dec 2021
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 25 Nov 2021
Preparing for health care’s new frontier: Committee releases major report on reforming the process for new medicines and health technology
25 November 2021 - A new parliamentary report ‘The New Frontier: Delivering better health for all Australians’ is recommending significant ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 25 Nov 2021
Medicines Australia welcomes tabling of parliamentary report about approval processes for new drugs and novel medical technologies
25 November 2021 - Medicines Australia welcomes the House of Representatives Health, Aged Care and Sport Committee Inquiry report into ...
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 11 Oct 2021
Review of the National Medicines Policy
11 October 2021 - The call for submissions closed on Friday 8 October 2021 and a total of 107 submissions have ...
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 21 Sep 2021
EU-HTA regulation: methodical preparations for implementation start with IQWiG and G-BA
21 September 2021 - The institute and the G-BA are part of a consortium that is developing the methodological basis ...