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Enquiries: what people are asking us right now

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Patients

Questions and answers: for patients

My medicine has changed: some specific changes to brands and funded medicines

Medicines information: making the best use of medicines

Health topics: using medicines in asthma, diabetes, gout, flu and to stop smoking

Prescribers

Making funding applications: apply to get a medicine or medical device listed on the Pharmaceutical Schedule

Special Authority forms: get targeted medicines for patients who meet the criteria

Exceptional circumstances: includes Named Patient Pharmaceutical Assessment (NPPA) information and forms

Further your education: 

  • Goodfellow Unit: Supported by PHARMAC to provide education and information for primary care health professionals.(external link)
  • BPACnz: supported by PHARMAC to provide education and information for primary care health professionals.(external link)
  • PHARMAC Seminars: Small workshop style continuing medical education (with CME credits) for health professionals.

Pharmacists

Enquiries: questions people are asking us now

Sign up to receive PHARMAC consultations, notifications and tender updates(external link)

Questions and answers for pharmacists: practical information especially for pharmacists

Notifications: decisions about funded pharmaceuticals

Further your education:  

  • Goodfellow Unit: Supported by PHARMAC to provide education and information for primary care health professionals.(external link)
  • BPACnz: supported by PHARMAC to provide education and information for primary care health professionals.(external link)
  • PHARMAC Seminars: Small workshop style continuing medical education (with CME credits) for health professionals. 

Pharmaceutical Schedule

  • Schedule online listings (not including Section H)
  • HML online listings (Section H, Part 2) – for hospitals

Subscribe to the Schedule email: for monthly updates

District Health Boards (DHBs)

About hospital pharmaceuticals

About hospital medical devices

Section H of the Pharmaceutical Schedule (hospital medicines and devices)

Relationship and accountability documents

Relationship agreement between PHARMAC and DHBs

PHARMAC's accountability documents

Pharmaceutical suppliers

Annual Procurement Plan: expected procurements for the next 12 months

Making funding applications: how to apply to get a pharmaceutical listed on the Pharmaceutical Schedule

Application tracker: follow the progress of applications for listing(external link)

Tenders: the annual tender for a range of off-patent pharmaceuticals

RFPs: current requests for proposals, usually for specific pharmaceuticals

Future contract opportunities: annual procurement plan for pharmaceuticals and devices

Labelling preferences: we prefer that medicines are labelled like this

Suppliers of hospital medical devices

PHARMAC's approach: what we're doing with hospital medical devices

Categories of hospital medical devices: how we're working to get devices listed on the Pharmaceutical Schedule

Addendum for medical devices: list of hospital medical devices under PHARMAC-negotiated contracts

Community health organisations that supply...

Bulk condoms

Nicotine replacement therapy

 

Wiki Haumaru Tūroro | Patient Safety Week | 3–9 November 2019

The topic for Wiki Haumaru Tūroro | Patient Safety Week 2019 is 'Understanding implicit bias in health care'. The Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand has developed three modules to help us all examine our bias. 

Watch the modules on HQSC's website(external link)

 

My medicine has changed

Information about specific medicine changes

Your health

PHARMAC has compiled information and resources on a number of common health issues facing New Zealanders

Forms

  • NPPA: Named Patient Pharmaceutical Assessment
  • Rapid Assessment
  • Renewals of pre-2012 Exceptional Circumstances
  • Special Authority
  • Notification of product changes
  • All forms

Pharmaceutical Schedule

Pharmaceutical Schedule

Schedule listings online (excluding Section H)(external link)

Section H online (HML)(external link)

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