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Minister announces parallel assessment means new medicines assessed sooner
28 February 2024 - PHARMAC is changing its process so it can assess a funding application at the same time Medsafe ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Apr 2023
Time taken for PHARMAC funding decisions ‘too long’, says Medicines NZ
26 April 2023 - It takes the nation's drug-buying agency, PHARMAC, an average of 7.7 years to make funding decisions ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Nov 2022
Kiwis with rare disorders want faster progress on 'life or death' health strategy
6 November 2022 - For Samantha Lenik, being diagnosed with Pompe disease after seven years of symptoms was a “double-edged ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Oct 2022
Cystic fibrosis: Rotorua mother gives PHARMAC a year to fund Trikafta before moving overseas
13 October 2022 - A desperate Rotorua mother has been told by her doctor to consider getting a lung transplant ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Oct 2022
Monkeypox vaccine not expected in NZ until December as community spread confirmed
10 October 2022 - New Zealand now has community transmission of monkeypox, but a vaccine to protect those at highest ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 22 Aug 2022
Monkeypox vaccines not expected until December
20 August 2022 - Monkeypox vaccines aren't expected to arrive in New Zealand until December, according to PHARMAC. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Jul 2022
PHARMAC ‘procrastinating’ over funding glucose monitors, Diabetes NZ says
12 July 2022 - PHARMAC should stop procrastinating on funding glucose monitors for people with diabetes after the Government agency ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Mar 2022
Advocates say PHARMAC too slow on drugs to help treat COVID-19
19 March 2022 - Kiwis have been left waiting for a new antiviral drug to treat COVID-19 because PHARMAC was too ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Dec 2021
PHARMAC still stalled on lung cancer drug
14 December 2021 - Lung cancer sufferers are still waiting on PHARMAC to reverse a decision made more than a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2021
Critics blame diabetes deaths on PHARMAC taking years to fund new drug
6 December 2021 - Diabetes Foundation Aotearoa says PHARMAC's delay funding new diabetes drugs has led to many deaths in Māori ...
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 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 19 Jan 2021
Medicines NZ hopes country can roll out COVID-19 vaccines early
19 January 2021 - Medical professionals are hopeful New Zealand is in a position to roll out COVID-19 vaccines early. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jan 2021
COVID-19: NZ vaccine timeline remains the same in light of new variant strains
13 January 2021 - New Zealand does not have any plans to fast-track its Covid-19 vaccine roll-out in light of ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 07 Dec 2020
PHARMAC diabetes drugs delay 'bewildering', 'worse than disappointing' - doctors
7 December 2020 - A decision by PHARMAC to defer the approval of two new drugs for the treatment of diabetes ...