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Children's Commissioner worried PHARMAC will cut children's access to cancer drugs
4 May 2021 - Children's Commissioner Andrew Becroft is warning PHARMAC not to play one group of children with a ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 May 2021
PHARMAC likely to end blanket funding for kids’ cancer drugs
3 May 2021 - A woman trying to get drugs funded for young spinal muscular atrophy patients was horrified when PHARMAC ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 May 2021
PHARMAC's budget hole hundreds of millions of dollars deep
29 April 2021 - For the first time, the Government's drug-buying agency has released figures about its 'options for investment' ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 01 May 2021
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 May 2021 update
1 May 2021 - The May 2021 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Apr 2021
Major missed opportunity on PHARMAC reform
21 April 2021 - “Pharmaceutical funding was totally absent from today’s health review, and that’s about where it is in ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Apr 2021
Easier access to rare metabolic disorder treatments
14 April 2021 - PHARMAC is making it easier for clinicians to access six treatments for rare metabolic disorders for ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Apr 2021
Masterton woman feels abandoned after medical funding rejected
9 April 2021 - Masterton's Allyson Lock feels she is not part of the "team of five million" after her ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Apr 2021
PHARMAC funding to support access equity research
8 April 2021 - PHARMAC Te Pātaka Whaioranga is proud to support Ngā Kaitiaki o Te Puna Rongoā o Aotearoa, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Apr 2021
Grant Robertson says Government focused on PHARMAC solution to cancer treatment
8 April 2021 - A woman who has had cancer says heartbreak has turned to anger at the way she ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Apr 2021
'It's huge': life-changing cystic fibrosis drug a step closer to being funded by PHARMAC
5 April 2021 - Straight after waking up, Claire Scofield begins each day with a series of treatments – nebulizers, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 06 Apr 2021
Decision to widen access to secukinumab for psoriatic arthritis and ankylosing spondylitis
1 April 2021 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce a decision to widen funded access to secukinumab (Cosentyx) for the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 04 Apr 2021
Cystic fibrosis medicine applications to be considered by PHARMAC and Medsafe in parallel
1 April 2021 - PHARMAC met this week with Vertex, a supplier of cystic fibrosis medicines, and with Medsafe, the ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 31 Mar 2021
New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule - 1 April 2021
1 April 2021 - The April 2021 issue of the New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule is now available and in effect. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Mar 2021
Mythbusting PHARMAC
17 March 2021 - The agency is seeking to dispel some misunderstandings about what it does and how it does ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 17 Mar 2021
PHARMAC’s drug switch
17 March 2021 - PHARMAC's generic drug swap for epilepsy treatment saved $30 million over five years. But for some ...