{"id":19367,"date":"2023-04-27T18:27:48","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T05:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=19367"},"modified":"2023-04-27T18:27:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T05:27:48","slug":"time-taken-for-pharmac-funding-decisions-too-long-says-medicines-nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=19367","title":{"rendered":"Time taken for Pharmac funding decisions \u2018too long\u2019, says Medicines NZ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__intro sics-component__story__paragraph\">It takes the nation&#8217;s drug-buying agency,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/health\/125175755\/budget-2021--pharmac-boost-of-200m-nothing-short-of-disgraceful\">Pharmac<\/a>, an average of 7.7 years to make funding decisions about potentially life-saving medicines, a report has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sics-component__html-injector sics-component__story__paragraph\">The\u00a0<em>Pharmac&#8217;s Medicines Waiting Lists: Impacts on Patients in Aotearoa New Zealand<\/em>\u00a0report, commissioned by lobby group<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/health\/131175559\/under-the-influence-inside-new-zealands-first-disclosure-of-drug-company-payments-to-health-professionals\">\u00a0Medicines New Zealand<\/a>\u00a0found it took on an average nearly eight years to reach a decision on applications across all Pharmac lists.<\/p>\n<p>Read the Stuff article here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/national\/health\/131862498\/time-taken-for-pharmac-funding-decisions-too-long-says-medicines-nz\">Pharmac medicines waiting lists too long<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is the full report:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pharmac_Waiting_Lists_April_2023.pdf\">Pharmac Waiting Lists Report April 2023<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes the nation&#8217;s drug-buying agency,\u00a0Pharmac, an average of 7.7 years to make funding decisions about potentially life-saving medicines, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17],"tags":[26,30,31,33,38,59],"class_list":["post-19367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-media","category-featured","tag-chronic-lymphocytic-leukaemia","tag-blood-cancer","tag-cll-advocates","tag-leukaemia","tag-pharmac","tag-medicines-nz"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Pharmac_waiting_lists.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19367"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19374,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19367\/revisions\/19374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}