{"id":16970,"date":"2021-10-12T16:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T03:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=16970"},"modified":"2021-10-12T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T03:41:30","slug":"pharmac-commits-to-being-more-transparent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=16970","title":{"rendered":"Media release: Where is the Pharmac Review Panel’s Report?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Where is the Pharmac Review Panel’s Report?<\/h2>\n

[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”940622″]12\u00a0October 2021
\nFor immediate release
\nMEDIA RELEASE<\/p>\n

WHERE IS THE PHARMAC REVIEW PANEL\u2019S INTERIM REPORT? <\/strong><\/h2>\n

Patient advocacy groups and clinicians are calling out the Pharmac Review Panel for failing to get their interim report out on time.\u00a0 The report that was due on 20 August is still not available seven weeks later.\u00a0 The \u201cdelay\u201d has been attributed to lockdown (which began on August 18).<\/p>\n

Dr Neil Graham is executive director of one of the many patient advocacy groups who, along with clinicians and medical specialist groups, went to great lengths and effort to contribute to the Panel\u2019s work. He said many individuals and groups had appeared before the committee or attended their workshops, and large numbers put in very substantial submissions.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor voluntary, patient-based organisations to produce and deliver this material within the very short time frame set by the Panel, was in itself a significant effort,\u201d said Dr Graham.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomewhat ironically, Pharmac\u2019s lack of transparency and timeliness around their processes for considering urgently needed, currently unfunded, life-saving medications, was one of the key issues raised by submitters.<\/p>\n

\u201cFailure on the part of the panel to deliver its report on time without a credible excuse is simply not good enough,\u201d said Dr Graham.<\/p>\n

Dr Graham noted that the absence of action on the Pharmac review coincides with a new Colmar Brunton survey showing that New Zealanders have little faith that they can access medicine.<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n

For further information, contact:<\/strong>
\nNeil Graham FRACP, FRCP
\nExecutive Director
\nChronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) Advocates New Zealand<\/p>\n

021 223 4038
\nneil@clladvocates.nz
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