Posted by Michael Wonder on 10 Mar 2022
Thirty six medicines added to PHARMAC’s waiting list as New Zealand’s medicines crisis worsens
10 March 2022 - PHARMAC has just released its Options for Investment list, which includes 36 new medicines since it was updated in July 2021. The list includes all medicines that PHARMAC would fund if its budget allowed.
“We have known for years that there is a medicine crisis in New Zealand” says Patient Voice Aotearoa Chair, Malcolm Mulholland. “The addition of a whopping 36 medicines to PHARMAC’s painfully long medicines waitlist in less than a year shows that the crisis has significantly worsened.”
