10 August 2020
John Luke
Via Email: [FYI request #13316 email]
Dear John
REQUEST FOR INFORMATION
Thank you for your request dated 14 July 2020 under the Official Information Act 1982 (OIA)
for information relating to PTAC subcommittee minutes. Your request noted:
The minutes listed on the website are not up to date, many minutes only have
it to 2018 or even 2017, most recent minutes are not published.
To ensure transparency and public access to the information, I would like to
request you to send me all the up to date minutes you have for all your ptac-
subcommittees listed on your website, from 2017 to now.
Also I would encourage you to upload these minutes to your website to ensure
public access to these information.
I can confirm that the PHARMAC website contains all meeting records that have been
finalised for publication.
PTAC subcommittees do not have a regular meeting schedule and instead meet as required
to discuss issues referred to them by PTAC or PHARMAC. Once a subcommittee’s advice
has been reviewed by PTAC, records of the meeting will be published on the PHARMAC
website, in accordance with the PTAC Terms of Reference. PHARMAC endeavours to have
clinical advice records published within 70 business days of a meeting. Currently only
meetings held within 70 business days do not have meeting records published on our
website. These meeting records will be uploaded to the website when finalised and are
currently on target to meet our timeframe.
To retrieve PTAC subcommittee records, please visit
our website. Please note that we may
withhold all or part of a record when it holds commercially sensitive information.
We trust that this information answers your query. Please get in touch with us if you have any
questions about this.
Yours sincerely
Rachel Read
Manager, Policy and Government Services
2020-21-015; A1413647
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