New Zealand’s Pharmaceutical
Management Agency (PHARMAC)
has announced the ‘go live’ of its
new Exceptional Circumstances
Framework, the system designed
to provide medication and medical
devices outside the normal
framework of the Pharmaceutical
Schedule funding process.
The system enables prescribers
to use a treatment which is not
on the official Pharmaceutical
Schedule, with unlisted treatments
for particular patients able to be
applied for using the Named Patient
Pharmaceutical Assessment process.
Applications will be assessed
against nine formal “decision
criteria” which explicitly exclude
non-clinical circumstances, patient
preference and clinical benefits
experienced in a funded trial.The above article was sent to subscribers in Pharmacy Daily's issue from 01 Sep 15 To see the full newsletter, see the embedded issue below or CLICK HERE to download Pharmacy Daily from 01 Sep 15
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