Australia ahead of NZ in cancer survival rates
The Cancer Society says 2500 more New Zealanders would have survived cancer if they had lived in Australia.
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The Cancer Society says 2500 more New Zealanders would have survived cancer if they had lived in Australia.
Tuesday, 2 March 2021, 9:18 am Patient Voice Aotearoa (PVA) welcomed the Government’s indication that it will announce a review of its drug purchasing agency Pharmac. Since its inception, PVA has asked for more scrutiny of a system which sees thousands of kiwis stranded without appropriate pharmaceutical options, or with vastly inferior treatment options, for illnesses and conditions which are treated as a matter of course by countries less economically able than New Zealand. The lack of a considered or coherent medicines strategy and the piecemeal approach to funding drugs has led to gro...