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Govt’s Pharmac directive could ‘exacerbate’ inequity — expert

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18 Jul 2024

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A health economics professor says the Government’s new direction for Pharmac could exacerbate existing inequities, with the agency now set to make wider economic and social considerations in its funding for drugs. Read more

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