Funding further treatments will be put on the backburner - as the government drug-buying agency PHARMAC tackles the squeeze on supply chains
Funding further treatments will be put on the backburner - as the government drug-buying agency PHARMAC tackles the squeeze on supply chains
10 May 2020
Chief executive Sarah Fitt says they don't want to stop doing that - but the current focus is to secure medicine already on the books.
The Government's pumping an extra 160 million dollars into PHARMAC over four years - for Thursday's Budget.
Fitt says there are huge pressures on the system - especially for critical care medicines.
She says they've been trying to build up stock - amid challenges with pricing and freight.
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