Tag: Pharmac

By AUT Journalism Student Vivek Panchal The Government has announced it will increase funding for Pharmac, boosting the availability of medicines for Kiwis. The $6.294 billion...

By Parmjeet Parmar, Pakuranga-based ACT List MP It has been almost a year since the election, and in Parliament the Coalition has been incredibly...

By Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister and MP for Botany After announcing our cancer drug plan just a couple of weeks ago, it was great...

Associate Health Minister David Seymour says the recent announcement Pharmac is opening consultation on new cancer medicines is great news for Kiwi cancer patients...

By Christopher Luxon, Prime Minister and MP for Botany As Prime Minister, my job is to lead a Government that has three key priorities...

New Zealand cancer organisations have published an open letter to the Government calling out its failure to follow through on a policy commitment made...

By Christopher Luxon, National Party leader and MP for Botany Many more Kiwis will receive essential cancer treatments if National forms a government in...

Christopher Luxon says a National Government he leads will fund 13 cancer treatments that are available in Australia but not New Zealand. “Each year, more...

By Robyn Fox To celebrate International Women's Day on March 8, the Zonta Club of East Auckland awarded Natasha Astill a floral tribute of...

If New Zealand First is part of the next Government it will change the te reo Maori names of state agencies back to English...

Ministry of Health Covid-19 update May 21, 2020 Today there are no new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand. That means our total number of confirmed cases...

There are 78 new cases of Covid-19 in New Zealand made up of 73 new confirmed cases and 5 probable cases. This is as...

PHARMAC is placing temporary dispensing limits on all funded community medicines from Friday 27 March 2020. Changes will be made to the Pharmaceutical Schedule, which...