PHARMAC | A Crown Entity of New Zealand - Te Pātaka Whaioranga
News and latest updates
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Supply Issues on Radio NZ
Hear Lisa Williams, Director of Operations, talk about supply issues.
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Decision to list medical devices supplied by LifeHealthcare Limited
We're listing 51 LifeHealthcare products from 1 December 2020.
27 October 2020
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Decision to widen access to a brand of long-acting methylphenidate
Nurse practitioners will also be able to apply for a Special Authority
23 October 2020
About PHARMAC | Mō Te Pātaka Whaioranga
- Our purpose is to deliver the best health outcomes from the Government’s investment in medicines and medical devices.
- We promote the responsible use of medicines in New Zealand. This means making sure medicines are not under-used, over-used or misused.
- Te Pātaka Whaioranga, ‘the storehouse of wellbeing’, sums up the part we play in managing and safeguarding something that is valuable to our whole community – the pursuit of wellbeing.
- We negotiate national contracts for hospital medical devices. In the future, we'll decide which medical devices are available for public hospitals.
Have your say on our funding decisions
We ask for your feedback on our decisions to fund a medicine or related product. We want to know what impact funding that medicine will have on prescribers, pharmacists and people who take the medicine.
Contact us
Talk to our enquiries team. We're ready to answer your questions about funded medicines and related products.
PHARMAC's Strategic Direction
Read PHARMAC's goals for the future and how we will achieve them.