An expected but unconfirmed Pharmac funding boost could come as a lifeline to our sinking drug system
An expected but unconfirmed Pharmac funding boost could come as a lifeline to our sinking drug system
21 June 2024
Finance Minister Nicola Willis has confirmed an announcement's coming - but it won't be today.
The Post's reporting a 600-million dollar boost is awaiting Cabinet approval.
Patient Voice Aotearoa chair Malcolm Mulholland says 330-thousand people are on the waiting list for unfunded drugs.
He says funding these drugs would bring us into line with the OECD - but it wouldn't be the end.
Mulholland says another 280 drugs have been applied for and are grinding their way slowly through Pharmac's approval system.
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