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Strypey

Great news for ADHDers in Aotearoa;

"Pharmac is now funding a new medicine and has removed renewal criteria for ADHD treatments."

nzherald.co.nz/nz/could-pharma

Until recently, people taking ADHD medication have had to pay hundreds or thousands of dollars every 2 years for a medication review. Pharmac is now trusting GPs to do this for their patients, saving hundreds of hours of psychiatrists' time every year.

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NZ Herald · Could Pharmac’s ADHD medication changes be a game-changer or a risk? - The Front PageBy Chelsea Daniels
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Incident Creator ❎

Amazing how a drug's users can realise a problem with an alternative and organise against it before develops an awareness of the scale of the problem. Whoever is doing their consulting needs a large amount of delta v applied to their underside.

The HRT petition cleared 10,000 signatures today. Keep 'em coming.

rnz.co.nz/news/national/535098

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Strypey

The second one is that public debate, including on health policy, has been kept between a very narrow set of goalposts. Fixing Pharmac is the most ambitious thing the panelists can come up with. No discussion of abolishing drug patents - as we have with software patents - so our health system can manufacture the medicines we need at cost.

#Pharmac#DrugPatents
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Strypey

"... because Bennett will now be governing a public agency specially designed to have an arms-length relationship with the government of the day, to retain public confidence in Pharmac’s integrity, she will have to display total independence from the ministers that she is closely associated with."

, 2024

democracyproject.nz/2024/04/30

Democracy Project · Bryce Edwards: Paula Bennett’s political appointment will challenge public confidenceThe list of former National Party Ministers being given plum and important roles got longer this week with the appointment of former Deputy Prime Minister Paula Bennett as the chair of Pharmac. The Christopher Luxon-led Government has now made key appointments to Bill English, Simon Bridges, Steven
#PublicService#Pharmac
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Andrew Bartlett

I don't remember which open source conference it was ( or OSDC), except being in Auckland, but I certainly remember the touching video and the positive attitude of the young women with despite such incredible hardship.

It is too many years later, but it really brought a tear to my eye to read that the critical drug suffers need to live a much more normal life is finally to be funded here in NZ by

stuff.co.nz/national/health/13

Stuff'Historic moment' as Pharmac strikes deal to fund cystic drug Trikafta Pharmac has struck a deal to fund Trikafta, which those with the lung disorder say will change the lives of hundreds of Kiwis.
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