Posted by Michael Wonder on 02 Sep 2019
Cancer sufferers to benefit from PHARMAC funding boost - Jacinda Ardern
3 September 2019 - The Prime Minister says cancer sufferers will significantly benefit from a funding boost to PHARMAC - despite not all the money going towards cancer drugs.
On Sunday, the Government unveiled its 10-year plan to tackle cancer, which includes giving PHARMAC major funding, setting up a new national cancer agency, and developing cancer-specific quality-performance indicators.
PHARMAC has a budget of $995 million for medicines, with 16 new cancer medicines funded between 2011/12 and 2017/18. The amount of money PHARMAC spends on cancer medicines has been increasing every year and currently sits at about $220 million.
