PHARMAC invites entire staff to top secret drug ranking meetings

Radio New Zealand

16 August 2021 - Highly confidential meetings where PHARMAC ranks the funding priority of potentially life-saving medicines are open to all staff and attended by junior workers, including executive assistants, payroll staff and graduates.

Senior clinicians have told RNZ they are staggered that such a vital meeting in PHARMAC's process is attended by back-office staff with no medical experience.

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