PHARMAC’s proposed approach to managing hospital medical devices

PHARMAC is seeking your feedback on this document, particularly around implementation implications for national management.

Feedback sought

PHARMAC welcomes feedback on this proposal. To provide feedback, please submit it in writing by 5 pm, Friday, 20 June 2014 to:

Background

PHARMAC has undertaken consultations and met with a wide range of health care professionals to discuss how we can best manage the expansion of PHARMAC’s role to include medical devices.

We have also been out speaking to a range of people in the sector and through all these activities we have received a vast array of information about issues relating to management of devices in DHB hospitals. We have used this to help develop our proposed approach.

Alongside the release of the discussion document, PHARMAC has also released a summary of the submissions made in the most recent consultation on medical devices, as well as an executive summary of the key points raised through all of our engagement activities.

The discussion document outlines the set of tools PHARMAC can apply when making decisions about medical devices and the next steps we are planning to take to implement this work.

We invite anyone with an interest to provide their views on the discussion document.

Forums

To gather as much feedback as possible, we will again be hosting a series of forums at DHB venues around the country.

The details for the remaining forums are as follows:

If you have any further questions about these forums or the consultation, please email: devices@pharmac.govt.nz or call Megan O’Mara on 04 901 3208.