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.
Health Minister David Clark is due soon to announce plans for overhauling cancer care. This might not, it has been reported, include establishing a national cancer agency.
That could be the right decision. It is possible to recognise the need for change while keeping an open mind about the agency itself.
But however that plays out, the fundamentals for one part of the system, drug-buying agency PHARMAC, should not change.
