NZ vax access change

June 11, 2014

PHARMAC has announced changes to funding access criteria for various vaccines following consideration of feedback on prevoius changes to the Immunisation Schedule. From 01 Jul, varicella vaccine would be amended to read “varicella vaccine” and access would be widened to include vaccination of patients with inborn errors of metabolism and contacts of adult patients who had no clinical history of varicella and who were severely compromised, PHARMAC said. Other effects included that the number of doses for meningococcal vaccination pre and post splenectomy would be increased to three and funded access would be widened to include patients with HIV and complement deficiency, as well as funded access for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine 13 vaccination being widened to include patients with HIV. For more, CLICK HERE.

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Pharmacy Daily | NZ vax access change

NZ vax access change

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