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PTAC continues to find new ways to reject funding applications (part 1)
21 August 2019 - The minutes from the May 2019 PTAC meeting provide some interesting, some might say startling, insights. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Aug 2019
Government cancer plan: ‘strong leadership’, early access to medicines
20 August 2019 - PHARMAC’s model and budget is under intense scrutiny, as the Government prepares to announce its interim ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 19 Aug 2019
RFP - supply of infliximab
19 August 2019 - PHARMAC invites proposals for the supply of infliximab in New Zealand. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 18 Aug 2019
Lack of transparency hampers cancer drug debate
19 August 2019 - The current debate raging over cancer drug funding is emotional, and the different agenda of lobby ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2019
A better way to fund medicines?
15 August 2019 - PHARMAC’s recent decision to fund two additional drugs from December this year has been widely welcomed ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2019
Nine new parliamentary petitions launched for vital medicine
15 August 2019 - In the last 10 months alone, 11 petitions have been delivered to Parliament calling for medicines ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Aug 2019
The patients to benefit from new cancer funding
13 August 2019 - The announcement that PHARMAC will fund two new cancer drugs from December has been met with ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 12 Aug 2019
New Zealand's access to funded medicines 'well behind the rest of the world'
12 August 2019 - New Zealand has the worst access to funded modern medicines of 20 OECD countries, a report ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Aug 2019
PHARMAC’s flatlining funding by stealth
9 August 2019 - The Labour-led Government is attempting to hide its shameful underfunding of medicines by peddling the myth ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Aug 2019
PHARMAC decision to fund more cancer drugs 'massive' relief to Kiwi mum paying $6,500 per month to survive
10 August 2019 - PHARMAC's decision to fund more cancer drugs has surprised one Kiwi woman as well as lifted ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Aug 2019
PHARMAC cancer model must be reworked, specialists warn
8 August 2019 - Two cancer drugs funded by PHARMAC are a welcomed surprise but the model needs to be faster ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Aug 2019
Labour has 'finally woken up' on PHARMAC cancer drug funding
8 August 2019 - I was driving towards home yesterday when my phone went beep and I had a look ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Aug 2019
It’s ‘criminal’ that it took so long for PHARMAC to fund cancer drug Kadcyla, campaigner says
8 August 2019 - Troy Elliott, whose wife has breast cancer, discusses the issue after an announcement that the drug will ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Aug 2019
Decision for funding in the immunosuppressant, oncology, vasodilator and smoking cessation therapeutic areas
8 August 2019 - PHARMAC is pleased to announce the approval of a decision relating to medicines in the immunosuppressant, ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 08 Aug 2019
Cancer care advocate Malcolm Mulholland, Cancer Society welcome PHARMAC announcement
8 August 2019 - Cancer care advocate Malcolm Mulholland says he has been inundated with messages of excitement and rejoice ...