Request for information: Pacific Responsiveness Strategy

Thank you for your request dated 12 September 2025 under the Official Information Act 1982 (the Act) for information relating to the Pacific Responsiveness Strategy. You requested:

It is in regards to Pharmac’s Pacific Responsiveness Strategy that has been superseded by the Equity policy.

Please provide any advice and recommendations that mention the Pacific Responsiveness strategy provided to the Pharmac board in the four years to September 12, 2025.

Please provide and responses from the Pharmac board to the advice and recommendations from the above point.

Please provide any Pacific Responsiveness Strategy board papers in the four years to September 12, 2025.

Please provide any responses to these papers from the board.

Please provide any memos and board papers provided to the senior leadership team on the Pacific Responsiveness Strategy in the four years to September 12, 2025.

Please include any draft versions of these memos and board papers.

Please provide any responses from the senior leadership team to these memos and board papers. Please include responses to the draft versions as well.

Please provide any advice provided to the senior leadership team and Pharmac Board regarding the merging of the Pacific Responsiveness Strategy into the Equity Policy.

Please include any drafts of the advice communications and/or documents.

Please provide any responses to the advice. Please also include responses to draft versions of the advice communications and/or documents.

Please provide any advice from Pharmac officials provided to its Minister regarding the merging of the Pacific Responsiveness Strategy into the Equity Policy.

Please include any responses to drafts of the advice communications and/or documents.

You will find the information you requested attached as Appendix 1.

Pacific Health at Pharmac

As you will note in the material provided the original Pacific Responsiveness Strategy (PRS) was developed prior to the entry into force of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022, Te Mana Ola and Pharmac’s Equity Policy. As a result, and in recognition of our statutory responsibilities and our Equity policy the Senior Leadership Team/Board agreed to align aspects of the PRS with the Equity policy to enhance our efforts in Pacific health.

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