Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC)
The Consumer Advisory Committee provides PHARMAC with input from a patient or health consumer perspective. The committee can provide input on a broad range of PHARMAC's activities, including around medicines funding issues. It is not, however, involved in the assessment of pharmaceutical funding applications.
It is one of the ways that PHARMAC is kept informed of consumer perspectives.
The Committee meets at least twice a year, and is guided by its Terms of Reference (10 pages, 26 KB). Minutes of meetings are available here.
CAC Info Sheet
For more information about the Consumer Advisory Committee Listening to Consumers - Role of the Consumer Advisory Committee (2 pages, 90 KB)
CAC Members
The current list of CAC members is here.
CAC Terms of Reference Review
We'd like to benefit from your views on how PHARMAC can best utilise its Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC). Below is a link to the document seeking your views. Submissions close on Friday 12 June 2009.
Input into the Consumer Advisory Committee Terms of Reference Review (25 pages, 392 KB)
Voluntary Checklist for Health Consumer Organisations Considering Health Industry Sponsorship
Industry sponsorship is a common feature of the Health Consumer Organisation landscape. The PHARMAC Consumer Advisory Committee is aware that entering into sponsorship relationships could give rise to conflicts of interest, or at least perceptions about the organisation's independence. The Voluntary Checklist for Health Consumer Organisations Considering Health Industry Sponsorship suggests principles and questions Health Consumer Organisations may find useful to reflect on when considering whether to enter into a sponsorship agreement with the health industry.
Voluntary Checklist for Health Consumer Organisations Considering Health Industry Sponsorship (7 pages, 142 KB)
Page updated on 28 May 2009
Linked documents
Consumer Advisory Committee Terms of Reference (10 pages, 26 KB)
CAC is a committee representing the interests of health consumers. The primary purpose of CAC is to provide the Board with input from a consumer or patient point of view (see section 50(1)(b) of the Act).
Listening to Consumers - role of the Consumer Advisory Committee (2 pages, 90 KB)
PHARMAC Information sheet Listening to consumers - Role of the Consumer Advisory Committee The Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC) helps PHARMAC better understand consumer and patient perspectives. CAC Consumer Advisory Committee Considering Consumer perspectives Our work directly affects the lives of…
Input into the Consumer Advisory Committee Terms of Reference Review. Closed. (25 pages, 392 KB)
1 May 2009 INPUT INTO THE CONSUMER ADVISORY COMMITTEE TERMS OF REFERENCE REVIEW We’d like to benefit from your views on how PHARMAC can best utilise its Consumer Advisory Committee (CAC). At present we are not making any proposals; we…
Voluntary Checklist for Health Consumer Organisations Considering Health Industry Sponsorship (7 pages, 142 KB)
CAC Consumer Advisory Committee Voluntary Checklist for Health Consumer Organisations Considering Health Industry Sponsorship Contents Introduction Guiding principles if considering health industry sponsorship Checklist Deciding whether to enter into a relationship Formalising the relationship Making the relationship work Concluding the…
