{"id":20865,"date":"2024-06-28T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=20865"},"modified":"2024-06-28T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T21:24:08","slug":"new-medicine-funding-something-to-celebrate-but-theres-a-long-way-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=20865","title":{"rendered":"New medicine funding something to celebrate &#8211; but there\u2019s a long way to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rodger Tiedemann, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Auckland and a consultant haematologist with Auckland Hospital\u2019s cancer and blood service, highlights the critical underinvestment in modern medicines in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>He commends the coalition Government&#8217;s recent pledge to allocate $642 million over the next four years for new cancer treatments and non-cancer medicines, which is expected to benefit thousands of New Zealanders.<\/p>\n<p>However, he underscores that despite this investment, New Zealand remains significantly behind other OECD countries in medicine reimbursement, reflecting chronic underfunding. This gap has led to limited access to life-extending and curative treatments, necessitating further substantial investment to bring the country&#8217;s healthcare up to par with global standards.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepress.co.nz\/nz-news\/350322721\/new-medicine-funding-something-celebrate-theres-long-way-go\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodger Tiedemann, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Auckland and a consultant haematologist with Auckland Hospital\u2019s cancer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20866,"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":[105,124,127,132,38,69,74,75,78,79,102],"class_list":["post-20865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-media","category-featured","tag-dr-malcolm-mulholland","tag-national-government","tag-coalition-government","tag-shane-reti","tag-pharmac","tag-diane-ward-cll-advocates","tag-patient-voice-aotearoa","tag-my-life-matters","tag-roger-tiedemann-blood-cancer-pharmac","tag-sam-neil-blood-cancer-pharmac","tag-david-seymour-christopher-luxon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/David_Seymour_Shane_Reti.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20865","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=20865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20870,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20865\/revisions\/20870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}