Pharmac

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• Support the independence of PHARMAC and ensure that it can prioritise public benefit over restrictive trade obligations. (more here)

• Labour will protect and enhance PHARMAC’s role, including through making protection of PHARMAC and the tools it uses to deliver low-cost medicines a bottom line that will not be given up in trade negotiations.
• Labour will establish a specific fund for medicines to treat rare diseases, controlled by the Ministry of Health, funded from PHARMAC’s baselines. (more here)

• End prescription charges and support the Pharmac model of affordable medicines by protecting it from drug company cartels in unfair trade agreements. (more here)

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