Generic medicines and generic brand changes
Generic medicines provide a cost-effective approach to medicines funding. To help provide information to health professionals so that they can be confident in any changes of brand of medicines that may occur, PHARMAC, in conjunction with key stakeholders, developed a series of seminars and a journal that provides information on generic medicines and medication brand changes.
For the seminar series, health professionals, Medsafe, CARM and PHARMAC were interviewed about generic medicines and medication brand changes. You can view the seminar 
here either in its entirety, or in smaller extracts.
The following journal provides some further, in-depth information on generic medicines and generic brand change. To read it click here (28 pages, 1173 KB).
You can also read PHARMAC's information sheet (2 pages, 221 KB) about generic medicines.
Page updated on 16 Sep 2011
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Generic medicines and generic brand change (28 pages, 1173 KB)
BEST PRACTICE SPECIAL EDITION Generics bpac nz better medicine Editorial Team Tony Fraser Professor Murray Tilyard Programme Development Team Noni Allison Rachael Clarke Rebecca Didham Terry Ehau Peter Ellison Julie Knight Dr Tom Swire Dr AnneMarie Tangney Dr Sharyn Willis…
The facts about generic medicines (2 pages, 221 KB)
Pharmaceutical Management Agency information sheet The facts about generic medicines Generic medicines are expert copies of medicines made by companies that didn’t develop the drug themselves. Although a generic medicine costs less, it will still work as well as the…
