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Pharmac should not be criticised simply for being selective and slow about the medicines it funds

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3 Aug 2023

Wilkinson.

Pharmac is often criticised for not funding enough new medicines and for being too slow to determine which ones it will fund. However, being slow and focused is not proof of being too slow or too focused.

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