Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora will be responsible for procuring medical devices that have high integration requirements with facilities and models of care, as part of a new two-agency approach to procurement announced by the government.
Under the plan, Pharmac will assess and procure devices with a direct therapeutic impact on patients, which often need a high level of clinical input.
Associate Health Minister David Seymour and Health Minister Simeon Brown say that after 13 years of paralysis over device procurement, this new approach will be more efficient, more certain, and more transparent.
