Pharmac

Pharmac’s head says the 2018 Budget has boosted its funding to record levels and is taking no heed of detractors who claim otherwise

Today’s Budget was described by the Prime Minister earlier in the week to be one of “no surprises” and some health officials believe it was one promise the Government managed to deliver.

Calls for Pharmac to be protected in future trade deals with the US after Trump threatens to make countries like New Zealand pay more for drugs

Dunedin pharmacists are hitting back at claims they are charging prostate cancer patients too much for sildenafil

Thousands of New Zealanders will benefit from advances in treatment as a result of two PHARMAC funding decisions

Debate over New Zealand’s spending on medicines has reignited just weeks before the Government’s first Budget

Nirvana Health Group’s new chief operating officer is keeping mum on specifics of the group’s future, but acquiring more prac­tices is definitely on the cards

More than 230,000 New Zealand patients are missing out on modern medicines that are available in other countries due to a massive government funding shortfall, a new report says

Pharmacists are being asked to have their say on proposed changes to how Pharmac presents medicine information to make it easier to find and use.

A group of New Zealand doctors, lawyers and scientists are worried the health consequences of today’s trade deal signing have gone unchecked