In a bizarre and erroneous twist on this, Finance Minister Nicola Willis said this year’s Budget “delivers to Māori because when a New Zealander turns up to an emergency room or a school, they don’t turn up thinking about their ethnicity”. Read more
Lived experience of affordability as a barrier to prescription medicines: A longitudinal qualitative study
Exploring lived experience provides insights into the multiple ways that lack of affordability prevents access to medicines: directly, through interaction with other barriers to access including transport, by damaging trust and reducing acceptability of services, and by making participants less able to deal with mistakes made by health professionals.