It is so important that New Zealanders are able to access new, emerging and effective cancer treatments that are the standard of care in other parts...
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Rodger Tiedemann: The cancer treatments you need are available, just not in NZ
By Rodger Tiedemann 5 Sep, 2023 05:00 AM OPINION It is distressing to have to tell my cancer patients, in each and every clinic, that effective...
Bitter pill: New report finds NZ lags behind in timely access to medicines
The Shawview Report, commissioned by Johnson & Johnson, is a valuable, timely round-up of the inherent problems in our medicines funding system...
Warmest congratulations to Dr Ruth Spearing CNZM
Dr Ruth Spearing, a distinguished haematologist and medical researcher with a strong interest in CLL, has been made a Companion of the New Zealand...
NZ’s Shameful Health Secret
New Zealand sits at the bottom of the western world for access to modern medicines. Pharmac decide what drugs we buy and when. So why aren’t Kiwis...
Time taken for Pharmac funding decisions ‘too long’, says Medicines NZ
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...
Dr Ken Romeril, Multiple Myeloma founder, Member of the NZ Order of Merit, advocates for the desperate need for access to modern medicines for myeloma sufferers.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/opinion/300759926/miracle-medicines-a-cancer-specialist-sends-a-message-to-pharmac
Multiple Myeloma NZ campaigns for Pharmac to fund medicine
Myeloma New Zealand has started a campaign to press Pharmac into funding a treatment that has been standard-of-care throughout the Organisation for...
BLOOD CANCER PATIENTS IMPLORE PHARMAC TO FUND DESPERATELY NEEDED MEDICINE
MEDIA RELEASE 7 September 2022 New Zealanders living with multiple myeloma, a deadly, relapsing/remitting blood cancer, are mounting a major,...
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Rachel Smalley: 1,000 kiwis will die while Pharmac takes eight months to make a decision
OPINION: How long does it take you to make a decision about whether or not to buy something? You’ve got all the information in front of you. You...
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