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Annual Review 2002/03 - Highlights
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2003/11/27
Providing new or expanded access to 10 subsidised treatments, including those for chronic myeloid leukaemia, anaemia associated with kidney failure, breast cancer, heavy menstrual bleeding and osteoporosis. Containing community pharmaceutical expenditure growth by successfully negotiating savings worth approximately $50.3 million.
Big jump in statins use but many still not accessing
(2 pages, 38 KB)
2003/11/27
More people are getting the benefits of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs but prescribing figures could be higher yet, says PHARMAC Medical Director, Dr Peter Moodie. Figures just released in PHARMAC’s 2003 Annual Review show a massive 65 percent leap in statins prescribing, with about 140,000 people now receiving the medicines.
Declining applications for listing of various acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
(1 page, 191 KB)
2003/11/27
Medicine use continues to rise
(2 pages, 37 KB)
2003/11/27
New Zealanders are taking more medicine than ever before, according to figures just released by drug funding agency PHARMAC. In the year to June 2003, New Zealand patients were written some 22.4 million prescriptions for subsidised medicine (accounting for about two-thirds of all prescribed medicines by value).
PHARMAC predicts continuing drop in HRT prescribing
(1 page, 37 KB)
2003/11/27
Even fewer New Zealand women are likely to opt for Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) despite the already large drop-off in use, predicts drug funding agency PHARMAC. Figures published in PHARMAC’s Annual Review, released today, show a 38 percent drop in the number of women prescribed HRT during the 2003 financial year.
Wellington Professor appointed to chair PTAC
(2 pages, 39 KB)
2003/11/27
Wellington-based physician and clinical pharmacologist Professor Carl Burgess has been appointed to chair the Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Committee (PTAC).
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