Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Apr 2023
Time taken for PHARMAC funding decisions ‘too long’, says Medicines NZ
26 April 2023 - It takes the nation's drug-buying agency, PHARMAC, an average of 7.7 years to make funding decisions about potentially life-saving medicines, a report has found.
The PHARMAC's Medicines Waiting Lists: Impacts on Patients in Aotearoa New Zealand report, commissioned by Medicines New Zealand found it took on an average nearly eight years to reach a decision on applications across all PHARMAC lists.
