District Health Boards (DHBs), PHARMAC, suppliers and others are working towards a new way of managing medical devices used or supplied to people by DHBs, either in hospitals or in the community.
This will see PHARMAC’s role expand to include making funding decisions on these devices, as well as medicines.
Consultation on managing fairer access to DHB hospital medical devices
The consultation is now closed.
A summary of the feedback received will be shared and published on our website in September 2019.
Categories of devices under PHARMAC contracts
News and updates on our hospital medical devices programme
Medical devices are products and equipment that are generally used on, in or by a person for a diagnostic or therapeutic purpose. They include consumable and durable products, implantables and complex equipment – everything from a cotton swab to an orthopaedic implant and a home dialysis machine.
