Hospital Medical Devices

Hospital Medical Devices

What is a medical device?

• Products and equipment used on, in or by a person for diagnostic or therapeutic purpose

• Simple dressings to complex systems of clinical equipment

• Supportive devices with therapeutic / safety considerations (beds and mattresses, disability support devices)

• 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

• terms for price and supply

• Requires hospitals to use national contract price & terms if purchasing contracted items • Over $400 million spend pa currently under agreement (of an estimated $675 million)

• 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

• Hospitals will decide what devices they will use to deliver local services, chosen from a national list managed by PHARMAC

• 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.