Using the Hospital Medical Devices List

What is the Hospital Medical Devices List?

The Hospital Medical Devices List is a part of the Pharmaceutical Schedule.

The Pharmaceutical Schedule lists more than 4,500 medicines that are dispensed in the community or contracted to be given in public hospitals.

It also includes over 160,000 hospital medical devices.

Where do I find the Hospital Medical Devices List?

Each month, we publish the latest version of the Hospital Medical Devices List as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and two PDFs. We also publish a summary of all the changes since the last month.

Pharmac is still building the Hospital Medical Devices List, so not every product will appear on this list.

What’s in the Hospital Medical Devices List?

The Hospital Medical Devices List gives:

• the product name
• brand name of the product
• product type
• name of the supplier
• categorisation information
• contracted listing price.

The Hospital Medical Devices List does not contain confidential information, like the terms and conditions we’ve agreed with suppliers. Te Whatu Ora procurement staff have this information.

Who can use the Hospital Medical Devices List?

Most products listed on the Hospital Medical Devices List have contracts as negotiated and agreed to by suppliers and Pharmac. Only Te Whatu Ora hospitals can access the listed products as contracted. This includes the price, terms, and conditions as outlined in each device contract.

General practices and private hospitals will need to contact suppliers about hospital medical devices.

How to use the current Hospital Medical Devices List

Currently Te Whatu Ora hospitals and specialist services are encouraged to procure hospital medical devices from Pharmac’s Hospital Medical Devices List.

If Te Whatu Ora hospitals procure a device from the Hospital Medical Devices List, they must use the Pharmac listing terms and conditions.

Pharmac’s hospital medical device contracts supersede all national, regional, and local Te Whatu Ora contracts for the same hospital medical device (with the same supplier).

The Health Sector Catalogue

In future the Health Sector Catalogue, being developed by Te Whatu Ora, will become the primary place to search for hospital medical device items and related information.

The Health Sector Catalogue is intended to be the data source for medical device product and pricing information for Te Whatu Ora. It’s made up of detail from Pharmac, medical device suppliers, and Te Whatu Ora.

Pharmac’s Hospital Medical Devices List will integrate into the Health Sector Catalogue.

We will also continue to publish the Hospital Medical Devices List on our website

Who to contact

If you have questions about our hospital medical devices work programme, email enquiry@pharmac.govt.nz