Goverment changes how New Zealand buys medical equipment

Certainty For Medical Device Procurement

Cabinet has agreed a new two-agency approach for the procurement of medical devices in New Zealand. The new approach recognises that both Health New Zealand (HNZ) and Pharmac are best suited to managing and procuring certain devices.

Goverment changes how New Zealand buys medical equipment

The government is touting it as an end to more than a decade of confusion.

Certainty for medical device procurement

Medical device procurement will be more efficient, more certain, and more transparent, Associate Health Minister David Seymour and Health Minister Simeon Brown say. Cabinet has agreed a new two-agency approach for the procurement of medical devices in New Zealand. The new approach recognises that both Health New Zealand (HNZ) and Pharmac are best suited to managing and procuring certain devices. Each agency will have separate responsibility for …