ACT Campaigns to Close the Pharmac Funding Gap

ACT Sets Achievable Path To Close Medicines Gap With Australia

ACT will put New Zealand on a pathway to close the 7 per cent medicines gap with Australia.

ACT campaigns to close the Pharmac funding gap

The ACT Party is proposing to increase the proportion of the health budget spent on Pharmac by one percent a year, to bring New Zealand in line with Australia and closer to the OECD average.

ACT announces policy to close medicine funding gap with Australia

David Seymour says New Zealand currently spends just 4.9% of its health budget on medicine compared with Australia, which spends 12.2%.

Medicines to get larger share of health funding under Act policy

Act is proposing to increase the Government’s medicines budget as a proportion of overall health spending with the hope of eventually achieving parity with...