Year in Review: The year in numbers
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Combined Pharmaceutical Budget 2019/2020
- $1.04 billion – DHBs' combined pharmaceutical expenditure
- 3.77 million – number of New Zealanders receiving funded medicines
- 14 – number of new medicines funded
- 32 – number of medicines with widened access
- $87.4 million – amount of savings achieved to reinvest in medicines
- 71,245 – estimated number of additional patients benefitting from new funded medicines
Hospital medical devices 2019/2020
- 17,000 – additional line items added to the Pharmaceutical Schedule
- 120,000*+ – total line items on the Pharmaceutical Schedule under national contracts
- $41 million – value of additional medical devices under contract for 2019/2020
- $296 million – total value of medical devices under PHARMAC contract