Valuing Life

Patient Voice Aotearoa and Medicines New Zealand, are proud to present the Valuing Life New Zealand Medicines Access Summit 2024 White Paper. The report was presented to the Associate Minister of Health (Pharmac), Hon. David Seymour on the 23rd of October 2024.

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New Zealand’s inaugural national summit on medicines access was a historic moment. For the first time, over 170 people came to discuss and debate topical issues pertaining to medicine access in New Zealand that was attended by multi-stakeholders including patients, patient advocates, industry, clinicians, government officials, and politicians. The white paper captures those conversations and makes a series of recommendations to be enacted by the various ministers responsible, as we embark on a new era of reforming Pharmac for the better.