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Every life is worth the same, but maybe not at PHARMAC
4 September 2022 - One of the dubious consequences of our obsession with race is the collection of data on ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 05 Aug 2021
Treasury wanted Labour to break all health election promises bar one
5 August 2021 - Treasury told the Government to kick its election promises like funding for PHARMAC, cochlear implants, and ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2021
No more sending Kiwis across the ditch as new national neuroendocrine cancer treatment service opens
14 July 2021 - The opening of a new multimillion dollar national service to treat neuroendocrine cancer means patients will ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 20 Apr 2021
Major health sector shake-up: Government scraps all district health boards in favour of one national authority
21 April 2021 - All of New Zealand's 20 District Health Boards will be replaced by one, single national health ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 29 Sep 2020
Election campaign 2020: Jacinda Ardern unveils $1 billion health policy
29 September 2020 - Labour is promising to invest millions more in drug-buying agency PHARMAC and emergency dental care if ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Dec 2019
Cancer Control Agency open, Prime Minister hails Blair Vining's 'tireless advocacy'
3 December 2019 - The Prime Minister has acknowledged Blair Vining's "tireless advocacy" as the new independent Cancer Control Agency ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 09 Nov 2019
NZ man Levi Holley selling his belongings to pay for brain cancer treatment
9 November 2019 - It started as a little nagging pain. It turned out to be an incurable brain tumour. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Sep 2019
Bad diagnosis: health care system muddled, lacking leadership major report finds
3 September 2019 - The review is being led by former prime minister Helen Clark's chief of staff, Heather Simpson. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Sep 2019
Cancer agency a vessel for progress
3 September 2019 - With great power comes great responsibility. But when the Government sets up an agency with great ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Sep 2019
Otago academic to head new national cancer strategy
2 September 2019 - The new interim National Director of Cancer Control, University of Otago academic Professor Diana Sarfati, believes ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 15 Aug 2019
A better way to fund medicines?
15 August 2019 - PHARMAC’s recent decision to fund two additional drugs from December this year has been widely welcomed ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 11 Aug 2019
PHARMAC’s flatlining funding by stealth
9 August 2019 - The Labour-led Government is attempting to hide its shameful underfunding of medicines by peddling the myth ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 03 Aug 2019
New Zealand health system: universalism struggles with persisting inequities
3 August 2019 - New Zealand was one of the first countries to establish a universal, tax-funded national health service. ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 14 Jul 2019
Mulhollands' Māori health inquiry submission to focus firmly on drug funding problems
14 July 2019 - Malcolm Muholland's wife Wiki Mulholland has advanced breast cancer. Malcolm Mullholland says the details of an ...
Posted by Michael Wonder on 13 Jul 2019
Protecting PHARMAC and cancer treatment
13 July 2019 - The "postcode lottery", delays and other failings for cancer treatment need to be addressed. ...