{"id":22344,"date":"2025-05-24T10:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=22344"},"modified":"2025-05-24T10:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T21:08:15","slug":"budget-2025-leaves-blood-cancer-patients-behind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=22344","title":{"rendered":"Budget 2025 leaves blood cancer patients behind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blood cancer patients and advocates are outraged after Budget 2025 failed to allocate new funding for life-saving medicines. Despite last year\u2019s $604M boost for Pharmac, no additional resources have been provided &#8211; leaving thousands without access to vital treatments.<\/p>\n<p>Leukaemia &amp; Blood Cancer NZ, the Blood Cancer Alliance, and the Cancer Society warn that the government is simply &#8220;re-celebrating&#8221; old funding while ignoring a growing backlog of unfunded medicines.<\/p>\n<p>Patients like Rob Crozier, 77, CLL Advocates Trustee, continue to pay thousands for private insurance, while experts call this a &#8220;fundamental health policy failure&#8221; leading to avoidable deaths.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand ranks among the worst in the OECD for access to modern medicines. Advocacy groups demand urgent action &#8211; blood cancer patients cannot afford another year of waiting. #FundCancerMedicines #Budget2025Fail #NZHealthCrisis<\/p>\n<p>Read more of the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/561987\/budget-2025-leaves-blood-cancer-patients-behind\">https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/561987\/budget-2025-leaves-blood-cancer-patients-behind<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood cancer patients and advocates are outraged after Budget 2025 failed to allocate new funding for life-saving medicines. Despite last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22345,"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":[75,79,82,95,105,130,131],"class_list":["post-22344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-media","category-featured","tag-my-life-matters","tag-sam-neil-blood-cancer-pharmac","tag-rachel-smalley","tag-ben-schrader-cll-advocates-chronic-lymphocyctic-leukaemia","tag-dr-malcolm-mulholland","tag-david-seymour","tag-christopher-luxon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Blood-pic.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22344","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=22344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22349,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22344\/revisions\/22349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}