Pharmac proposes widening access to medicine used in the treatment of chronic heart failure

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20 Aug 2024

RNZ

Pharmac is proposing to widen access to a medicine used in the treatment of chronic heart failure.

The medicine, empagliflozin, would be available to people who have chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction – about half of all people with chronic heart failure.

Pharmac director of pharmaceuticals Geraldine MacGibbon says empagliflozin is a medicine that can give people more time with their loved ones and lessens the time spent in hospital.

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