{"id":22207,"date":"2025-04-18T10:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=22207"},"modified":"2025-04-18T10:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T21:05:16","slug":"new-zealanders-are-dying-specialists-plea-for-blood-cancer-drug-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=22207","title":{"rendered":"\u2018New Zealanders are dying\u2019: Specialist\u2019s plea for blood cancer drug funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content-item\">Pharmac on Thursday opened consultation on allowing asthma patients easier access to inhalers &#8211; which if approved would exhaust\u00a0<a id=\"link-7b279088ea08c3a0573012af5a15a992\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/politics\/350321520\/government-boosts-cancer-spending-604-million-over-four-years\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the record $600 million cancer drug investment<\/a>\u00a0announced last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">But there are already calls for the Government to stump up more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">Blood cancer patients weren\u2019t covered by the promise and 59 haematologists &#8211; almost all the blood cancer specialists in the country &#8211; have signed a letter to the Government urging them to take urgent action on funding blood cancer medicines in this year\u2019s Budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-item\">Haematologist Rodger Tiedemann has seen too many patients he can\u2019t adequately help due to a lack of funding.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/politics\/360658687\/new-zealanders-are-dying-specialists-plea-blood-cancer-drug-funding\">https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/politics\/360658687\/new-zealanders-are-dying-specialists-plea-blood-cancer-drug-funding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pharmac on Thursday opened consultation on allowing asthma patients easier access to inhalers &#8211; which if approved would exhaust\u00a0the record [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22208,"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":[105,130,131,133,75,78,79,82,95,96,98],"class_list":["post-22207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-media","category-featured","tag-dr-malcolm-mulholland","tag-david-seymour","tag-christopher-luxon","tag-dr-rodger-tiedemann","tag-my-life-matters","tag-roger-tiedemann-blood-cancer-pharmac","tag-sam-neil-blood-cancer-pharmac","tag-rachel-smalley","tag-ben-schrader-cll-advocates-chronic-lymphocyctic-leukaemia","tag-clinical-trials-cll-blood-cancer","tag-valuing-life-new-zealand-medicine-access-summit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Roger-Tiedemann.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22207","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=22207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22212,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22207\/revisions\/22212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}