6 September 2018 - PHARMAC is proposing to change how three hospital medicines are managed within the Pharmaceutical Schedule.
The medicines are:
These medicines are currently listed in Section H with restrictions applying to their use in DHB hospitals. This change would result in these medicines also being listed in Section B of the Pharmaceutical Schedule from 1 February 2019, with a two-month phase-in period, meaning that the changes would be fully implemented from 1 April 2019.