With ACT and NZ First promising to overhaul Pharmac, what’s in store for publicly funded medicines?
- Written by: Paula Lorgelly, Professor of Health Economics, University of Auckland
Never before has Pharmac – the government’s medicine procurement agency and decision maker – featured so prominently in an election.
Many parties are pledging more funding, but two are promising to overhaul the agency as we know it. One proposal would link funding for medicines with measures of their impact on overall...
