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Don't play sick children off against each other - Children's Commissioner tells Pharmac

Don t play sick children off against each other - Children s Commissioner tells Pharmac
Guyon Espiner
© RNZ / Rebekah Parsons-King
Children s Commissioner Andrew Becroft is warning Pharmac not to play one group of children with a life-threatening illness off against another.
His comments come after RNZ revealed that Pharmac is likely to end the blanket provision of child cancer drugs.
Pharmac says it has long viewed the special exemption for child cancer drugs as inconsistent but it was jolted into finally addressing the issue in response to a discrimination claim taken under the Human Rights Act.
Patient advocate Fiona Tolich took a discrimination claim, asking why Pharmac was funding all child cancer drugs but would not fund Spinraza for about 35 children with spinal muscular atrophy, a deadly genetic condition. ....

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Children's Commissioner worried Pharmac will cut children's access to cancer drugs

Mulholland said this was no way to address the issue raised in Tolich s discrimination claim.
It s clear that Pharmac believes in order to address some inequity, you actually have to take something away from a group of people that are currently receiving it. Obviously, that s the game plan.
Pharmac stressed that no current medicine used by child cancer patients would be taken away, but Mullholland was worried about what would happen in the future - both for patients who were diagnosed after Pharmac changed the rules and for new drugs that came on the market.
The road that Pharmac are pursuing will mean that there are most definitely [fewer] treatment options available for kids with cancer once they have been diagnosed. ....

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Pharmac's end to the blanket provision 'could play sick children off against each other,' Children's Commissioner tells Pharmac

Pharmac s end to the blanket provision could play sick children off against each other, Children s Commissioner tells Pharmac
3 May, 2021 07:17 AM
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A review of the government s drug buyer Pharmac will focus on the timeliness and transparency of its decisions.
A review of the government s drug buyer Pharmac will focus on the timeliness and transparency of its decisions.
RNZ
Children s Commissioner Andrew Becroft is warning Pharmac not to play one group of children with a life-threatening illness off against another.
His comments come after RNZ revealed that Pharmac is likely to end the blanket provision of child cancer drugs. ....

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