Election 2020 - Party Policies - Drugs - Pharmaceutical Reform
25th Jul 20, 5:55am
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Pharmaceutical Reform
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- Seek to use objective and health-centred legislation along the lines of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 to re-evaluate the relative harms and appropriate legal and regulatory status of psychoactive substances.
- Implement immediately all of the recommendations of the Law Commission’s 2011 review of the Misuse of Drugs Act on law reform
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- Ring-fence an extra $50m a year ($200m over four years) for more, effective cancer drugs.
- Direct PHARMAC – within its current parameters – to fund cancer drugs that would improve outcomes for as many as possible.
- Ensure those cancer drugs go to those who need them, so PHARMAC will need to make sure they are as affordable and as accessible to as many New Zealanders as possible.
- Expect the cancer drugs PHARMAC buy from this fund to be those that demonstrate high levels of effectiveness internationally. We don’t want just more drugs – we want drugs that will save lives.
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