Hospital Medical Devices
What is a medical device? •
Products and equipment used on, in or by a person for diagnostic or therapeutic purpose
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Simple dressings to complex systems of clinical equipment
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Supportive devices with therapeutic / safety considerations (beds and mattresses, disability support devices)
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Includes devices provided by the hospital to community patients
Building the list – national contracting •
Allows hospital to buy the same products they’re currently using on common
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terms for price and supply
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Requires hospitals to use national contract price & terms if purchasing contracted items
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Over $400 million spend pa currently under agreement (of an estimated $675 million)
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Over 138,000 contracted line items from over 100 suppliers
Fairer access to hospital medical devices •
PHARMAC will decide which devices are publicly funded to get the best possible health outcomes
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Hospitals will decide what devices they will use to deliver local services, chosen from a national list managed by PHARMAC
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PHARMAC will decide what gets added or removed, and will manage a process for exceptional circumstances
Tip: More guidance on medical devices is given earlier in this paper.
Source: presentation by CEO of PHARMAC, Sarah Fitt to INZBC on 17 Sep 2021.
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