Posted by Michael Wonder on 28 Aug 2019
Patient Voice Aotearoa calls for PHARMAC reform
28 August 2019 - Patient Voice Aotearoa has launched a petition calling for the Minister of Health to initiate an external reform of PHARMAC and to double the agency’s budget immediately, with a plan to triple its budget over the next two years in order to bring it into line with the OECD average for pharmaceutical spending.
“New Zealand has fallen so far behind the rest of the developed world in terms of medicines funding that only an immediate doubling of the budget will do, with a view to tripling it as soon as possible” says Patient Voice Aotearoa Malcolm Mulholland.
