{"id":22480,"date":"2025-08-06T12:40:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=22480"},"modified":"2025-08-06T12:40:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T23:40:25","slug":"new-zealands-lack-of-access-to-modern-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/?p=22480","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s lack of access to modern medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll commissioned by Medicines NZ has ignited political debate over New Zealand\u2019s access to modern medicines, revealing that many citizens feel lives are at risk due to underfunding.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted by Perceptive, the survey of 992 people found that 43% believe the government should fund medicines \u201cmuch more,\u201d and nearly a third know someone who has paid out-of-pocket for unfunded treatments. Access to medicines is seen as worse than in countries like Australia and the UK, and 36% of respondents said increased funding would influence their vote in the next election.<\/p>\n<p>The findings have prompted finger-pointing among political parties, especially as National previously campaigned on improving access to cancer treatments. Despite a budget boost for Pharmac, New Zealand still lags behind other developed nations, and the issue is expected to be a major election-year flashpoint<\/p>\n<p>Please read the article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/nz-news\/360780977\/lives-are-risk-new-poll-thats-sparked-political-debate-and-finger-pointing\">https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/nz-news\/360780977\/lives-are-risk-new-poll-thats-sparked-political-debate-and-finger-pointing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new poll commissioned by Medicines NZ has ignited political debate over New Zealand\u2019s access to modern medicines, revealing that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22481,"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":[78,79,82,85,95,130,131],"class_list":["post-22480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-media","category-featured","tag-roger-tiedemann-blood-cancer-pharmac","tag-sam-neil-blood-cancer-pharmac","tag-rachel-smalley","tag-government","tag-ben-schrader-cll-advocates-chronic-lymphocyctic-leukaemia","tag-david-seymour","tag-christopher-luxon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Pharmac_pills.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22480","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=22480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22485,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22480\/revisions\/22485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clladvocates.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}