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Search for Pharmac’s new CE underway
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac’s Board has begun the search for a new Chief Executive, advertising in New Zealand and overseas. Board Chair Paula Bennett says the Board is looking for a...
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Pharmac to fund more cancer medicines
Source: PHARMAC Funding nivolumab in combination with ipilimumab for eligible people with kidney cancer We expect about 110 people with metastatic kidney cancer will benefit in the first year of...
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Pharmac funds new oral contraceptive pill
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac has decided to fund a new progestogen-only oral contraceptive pill called desogestrel (branded as Cerazette). Melissa Copland, Pharmac’s Clinical Lead–Medicines Management, says desogestrel will be funded for...
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Pharmac’s plans to improve access to asthma inhalers
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is seeking feedback on a proposal to make it easier for people with asthma to access a type of inhaler. “We’re proposing two changes, which would make...
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Pharmac to fund medicines for blood cancers, inflammatory bowel disease, eczema and arthritis
Source: PHARMAC More New Zealanders will have access to medicines for blood cancers, bowel diseases, eczema and arthritis, following Pharmac’s decision to widen access to four medicines for six health...
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21,000 would benefit from proposed changes to New Zealanders access to contraceptives
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is consulting on a proposal that would make it easier for thousands of New Zealanders to access contraceptives. Pharmac’s Clinical Lead – Medicines Management, Melissa Copland, says...
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Pharmac proposing to fund two brands of oestradiol patches
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is seeking feedback on a proposal to fund two brands of oestradiol patches for New Zealanders to use – Estradot, and Estradiol TDP Mylan. If approved, Pharmac...
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Woodfibre LNG Sets New Benchmark as World’s First Net Zero LNG Export Facility
Source: Media Outreach SINGAPORE – Media OutReach Newswire – 26 May 2025 – Woodfibre LNG, a subsidiary of Pacific Energy which is a member of the Royal Golden Eagle (RGE)...
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Changes to the vocational education and training (VET) system
Source: Tertiary Education Commission Last updated 21 May 2025 Last updated 21 May 2025 Print Share In December 2023, the Government announced its intention to disestablish Te Pūkenga | New...
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Agenda for June 2025 Rare Disorders Advisory Committee meeting
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is sharing the agenda for the upcoming Rare Disorders Advisory Committee meeting to be held on Tuesday 10 June 2025. Note the meeting date is now one...
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From finger pricks to freedom
Source: PHARMAC Life was admin heavy “Life was just admin heavy. I was doing injections every day and testing my blood sugar at every meal, so I was ecstatic when...
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Big Screen Symposium and Doc Edge Scholarships 2025
Source: New Zealand Film Commission The New Zealand Film Commission is offering up to 15 scholarships for industry practitioners who live in regional areas of Aotearoa, identify as deaf, disabled...
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Celebrating New Zealand Film Sector Wins at 2025 Global Production Awards in Cannes
Source: New Zealand Film Commission The New Zealand Film Commission (NZFC) congratulates the outstanding achievements of the Māoriland Charitable Trust and Craig Gainsborough of Greenlit, recognised at the prestigious 2025...
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Schedule rule changes will improve continuity of cancer care
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is proposing a change to the Pharmaceutical Schedule rules, which if agreed, would give New Zealanders with cancer greater continuity of care. Pharmac is consulting on a...
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13,000 people to benefit from new insulin medicine
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac will fund a new type of insulin for people with diabetes, branded as Ryzodeg, from 1 May 2025. Pharmac’s Director Pharmaceuticals, Geraldine MacGibbon, expects about 13,000* people...
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Pharmac seeks feedback on updates to COVID-19 antiviral medicines
Source: PHARMAC 9 May 2025 Media release Medicines COVID-19 Pharmac has today opened consultation on a proposal to simplify the criteria for people accessing COVID-19 antiviral medicines, along with the...
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Pharmac funds and widens access to melanoma medicines
Source: PHARMAC Pharmac is funding more medicines for people with skin cancer (melanoma), from 1 June 2025. The decision includes widening access to pembrolizumab (branded as Keytruda) and funding dabrafenib...
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Advice seen by Minister
Source: Tertiary Education Commission Date Reference Number Title 19 December 2019 AM/19/01484 Aide-Memoir: Discussion paper: establishing a CoVE specialising in Secondary Tertiary Programmes, Multiple Pathways and Transitions (PDF 1.4 MB) ...
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Consultation on Industry Skills Boards’ coverage
Source: Tertiary Education Commission Last updated 21 May 2025 Last updated 21 May 2025 Print Share We consulted on a proposed model for the number and coverage groupings of Industry...
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FMA issues a warning on managed investment scheme
Source: Budget 2025 – Greenpeace braced for ‘scorched earth’ budget from Govt Media Release MR No. 2025 – 16 The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) – Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko –...
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Update on the Pushpay insider trading appeal
Source: Budget 2025 – Greenpeace braced for ‘scorched earth’ budget from Govt Media Release MR No. 2025 – 15 The Financial Market Authority (FMA) – Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko –...
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Experienced retail investor found liable for market manipulation
Source: Budget 2025 – Greenpeace braced for ‘scorched earth’ budget from Govt Media Release MR No. 2025 – 13 Kok Ding Cheng, an experienced retail investor, has been ordered to pay...
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FMA confirms fintech sandbox participants
Source: Budget 2025 – Greenpeace braced for ‘scorched earth’ budget from Govt Media Release MR No. 2025 – 12 The Financial Markets Authority (FMA) – Te Mana Tātai Hokohoko has...
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Release: Bugs on David Seymour’s school lunch menu
Source: New Zealand Labour Party The latest shocker to come out of David Seymour’s school lunches is an insect being found in a student’s meal. “Just when we thought David...
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Release: Nelson short-changed by hospital downgrade
Source: New Zealand Labour Party National’s cuts to Nelson’s Hospital rebuild will leave the community with only half the number of new beds than the rebuild Labour planned. “I’m worried...
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Road closed: Number 2 Line, Okoia
Source: New Zealand Police Number 2 Line near Okoia, Whanganui, is closed after a crash. At around 7pm emergency services received reports of the crash east of Whanganui, between Portal...
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Tanzania’s New Foreign Policy Signals Strategic Expansion of South-South Partnerships with Asia
Source: Media Outreach DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA – EQS Newswire – 26 May 2025 – The Government of the United Republic of Tanzania has launched its revised National Foreign Policy...