District Health Boards (DHBs), PHARMAC, suppliers and others are working towards a new way to deliver fairer access to publicly funded medical devices that are purchased by DHBs for use 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.
Feedback summary from the consultation on managing fairer access
The feedback summary is now available from PHARMAC's consultation on managing fairer access to hospital medical devices.
The consultation was open from 5 March 2019 and closed on 28 June 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.
