Strategic Direction Te Ahunga Rautaki
Pharmac's strategic goals sit within the broader health and disability sector. Our work contributes to the Government's vision of healthy futures (pae ora) for New Zealanders.
Our mandate
The Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022 requires Pharmac to:
Secure the best health outcomes that are reasonably achievable from pharmaceutical treatment and from within the amount of funding provided.
Our strategic priorities
Strategic management of medicines
Planning and managing our budget over the medium-term to achieve the best health outcomes and deliver value
for the public.
Enhanced assessment and decision making
- Improving our assessment and decision-making processes by increasing consumer input and participation
- Improving timeliness and transparency
- Increasing efficiency
- Updating our approach to include wider fiscal impacts to the whole of Government – and consider societal impacts.
Strategic management of medical devices
Developing and implementing an integrated approach to hospital medical devices to drive better value and more
consistent and equitable access.
Organisational priorities
Our strategic priorities are underpinned by three organisational priorities:
- Health equity/Health need: Improve health outcomes for populations with the highest health needs and support achievement of equitable health outcomes.
- Partnership and collaboration: Build stronger relationships and pursue opportunities to work collaboratively and in partnership with stakeholders.
- Modernised data and digital: Ensure that we have a modern data and digital infrastructure to meet both internal and external stakeholder needs now and in the future.
More detail
Our strategic priorities are detailed in our Statement of Intent. Each statement of intent covers a four-year period and is informed by the Minister's letter of expectations to Pharmac.
Pharmac's statements of intent
Letters of expectations from ministers
We also produce a Statement of Performance Expectations. These statements drill into the detail of what we plan to achieve in each financial year.
Pharmac's statements of performance expectations
We report on our progress against the Statement for Performance Expectations to the Minister every three months (quarter) and publish those reports on our website.
We also report our progress every year to Parliament in our Annual Report.
Our vision
Our vision is currently under review. Our values continue to inform our approach to delivering better health outcomes for New Zealand.
- Pharmac's Strategic Framework 2024 [PDF 582 KB]