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2003
PHARMAC documents that matched your search:
InPHARMation, December 2003
(2 pages, 75 KB)
2003/12/10
This year will see New Zealanders pay for about $566 million worth of prescription medicines, some 10 percent more than in 2002-03. We’re pleased that DHBs have agreed to allocate additional funding to pharmaceuticals, partly in recognition of the greater volume of medicines that will result from people gaining access to Primary Healthcare Organisations.
PHARMAC welcomes new Board appointment
(1 page, 36 KB)
2003/12/04
PHARMAC Board chairman Richard Waddel has welcomed the appointment of Tauranga management consultant Adrienne von Tunzelmann to the Board of the Government drug- funding agency.
Roche proposal regarding pegylated interferon alpha-2a (Pegasys)
(3 pages, 880 KB)
2003/12/04
And various other pharmaceuticals.
Roche proposal regarding pegylated interferon alpha-2a (Pegasys)
(3 pages, 880 KB)
2003/12/04
And various other pharmaceuticals.
Annual Review 2002/03 - Highlights
(1 page, 35 KB)
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).



