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2012
PHARMAC documents that matched your search:
PHARMAC lifts restrictions on some cancer treatments
(2 pages, 77 KB)
2012/12/07
7 December 2012 Media release PHARMAC steps up to help meet Government cancer treatment goal Recent decisions by PHARMAC will have a positive effect on cancer treatment in New Zealand. PHARMAC has removed the Special Authority funding requirements from seven…
Diabetes meters change reaches next milestone
(1 page, 69 KB)
2012/11/29
29 November 2012 Media release Diabetes meters change reaches next milestone People with diabetes are being reminded about changes to blood glucose testing meters and testing strips. From 1 December PHARMAC will stop funding meters other than the three meters…
PHARMAC consulting on clinical advice for medical devices
(2 pages, 81 KB)
2012/11/28
28 November 2012 Media release PHARMAC asking: How do we get the best advice for our medical devices work? PHARMAC has released a consultation document seeking the views of clinicians. It asks how PHARMAC should make decisions on medical devices,…
More convenient HIV treatments funded
(1 page, 64 KB)
2012/11/26
23 November 2012 Media release More convenient HIV treatments funded PHARMAC is to fund new combination HIV medicines from 1 December. Atripla and Truvada are both combination pills for the treatment of people with HIV. Atripla is a combination of…
Sisira Jayathissa appointed PTAC Chair
(2 pages, 65 KB)
2012/09/25
25 September 2012 Media release PHARMAC welcomes new Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee (PTAC) chair PHARMAC is welcoming the appointment of Dr Sisira Jayathissa to the chairmanship of PTAC, says Medical Director Dr Peter Moodie. The Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory…
PHARMAC progresses national hospital medicines list
(2 pages, 70 KB)
2012/08/06
6 August 2012 Media release PHARMAC takes next step in forming national hospital medicines list National pharmaceuticals funder PHARMAC has begun a significant step towards standardising hospital medicines throughout the country. PHARMAC has released two lists of medicines that it…
PHARMAC to fund alternative treatments for asthma, scabies
(1 page, 70 KB)
2012/07/31
31 July 2012 Media release PHARMAC to fund alternative treatments for asthma, scabies PHARMAC is to fund a treatment for pre-schoolers with recurrent wheezing despite using other therapies,,and for people with exercise-induced asthma. As part of the agreement with Merck…
New targeted lung cancer drug funded
(1 page, 69 KB)
2012/07/09
10 July 2012 Media release PHARMAC funds new targeted lung cancer drug Funded treatment options for New Zealand’s most common form of cancer will take a step forward in August when PHARMAC begins funding gefitinib (Iressa), a targeted treatment for…
PHARMAC appoints Chief Executive
(2 pages, 72 KB)
2012/06/26
25 June 2012 Media release Steffan Crausaz appointed PHARMAC Chief Executive PHARMAC Board chairman Stuart McLauchlan has today announced the appointment of Steffan Crausaz as PHARMAC’s Chief Executive. Steffan Crausaz has been the Government pharmaceutical-funding agency’s acting Chief Executive since…
PHARMAC moves to Pharmaceutical Schedule subscriptions
(1 page, 65 KB)
2012/05/31
31 May 2012 Media release PHARMAC moves to streamline access to Pharmaceutical Schedule PHARMAC is moving to streamline access to the Pharmaceutical Schedule, the list of medicines funded by the Government. The Government medicine funder has launched a website to…



