This is a bloody joke!
The Government on Tuesday announced it would be launching a review into Pharmac, but its total budget wouldn’t be part of that. Instead it will only look at how it performs against its objectives, concerns around transparency, how quickly it makes decisions and whether they are equitable.
If any review of Pharmac ignores the budget, the entire thing is a sham!
We all love the bulk buying power of Pharmac, but t hasn’t been given the extra funding to be able to ensure Kiwi’s can gt the latest medicines for a huge number of diseases.
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Walker says it would be absolutely life changing if Pharmac funded the medicine he needs. It could add decades to my life expectancy, as well as making big differences in my every day-to-day life. I might be able to eat and drink again one day, hopefully, Walker said. I wasn t prepared for how hard that was going to be psychologically. It s something I struggle to put into words because eating and drinking is such a natural human instinct.
Patients like him fighting rare diseases and cancers have been begging the Government to review Pharmac, and on Tuesday the Government answered the call.
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