Clinical advice papers for Upadacitinib (RINVOQ®) and decision paper for secukinumab

Thank you for your request dated 03 July 2023 under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA) for information relating to upadacitinib and secukinumab. You requested: 

Clinician Advice Paper 

Can I please request the PTAC (19 May 2022 meeting) and the Rheumatology Specialist advisory Committee (28 March 2023) clinical advice papers for the following proposals: 

 These will be the papers that were written by Pharmac staff to these Committees, seeking their advice. 

Decision Paper 

Can I please request the decision paper to list secukinumab in front line Psoriatic arthritis. 

Please note that we approach our assessment of requests for information under the OIA on the basis that once we release the information to you it becomes available to any other party in that exact form (whether by you distributing it to others or by virtue of us receiving the same request from a different third party).

We have redacted a small amount of information from the documents as we consider this is necessary to:

• protect information where the making available of the information would be likely to unreasonably prejudice the commercial position of the person who supplied or who is the subject of the information (section 9(2)(b)(ii));
• protect information which is subject to an obligation of confidence or which any person has been or could be compelled to provide under the authority of any enactment, where the making available of the information would be likely to prejudice the supply of similar information, or information from the same source, and it is in the public interest that such information should continue to be supplied (section 9(2)(ba)(i));
• enable Pharmac to carry on, without prejudice or disadvantage, negotiations, including commercial negotiations (section 9(2)(j)).

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