7 December 2017 - Achieving equity in medicines access is one of the bold goals PHARMAC has set itself to achieve by 2025.

Writing in the agency’s 2017 Year in Review, Chief Executive Steffan Crausaz says that as it completes a quarter century of service to New Zealand, the time is right to set some intentionally difficult goals to work towards.

“Our new strategy challenges us to make an even bigger contribution to the New Zealand health system, and to the health of all New Zealanders,” he says.

Steffan Crausaz says some groups of people don’t get to benefit from funded medicines compared with others, and PHARMAC wants to change that.

“We know that there are differences in access to medicines by some population groups, particularly when looked at by ethnicity,” he says.

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