18 December 2019 - An Auckland man had a seizure and blacked out as he drove through Auckland's Waterview Tunnel after switching epilepsy medication brands because of a PHARMAC cost-saving drive.

But documents released under the Official Information Act show when the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) advised patients making the brand switch to consider stopping driving for two months, PHARMAC questioned the decision.

Paul Thompson, who woke up in his car in the tunnel with someone banging on his window, urged people with epilepsy to take NZTA's advice if they were caught up in the PHARMAC brand switch.

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