Tag: healthcare policy New Zealand

  • Medicines are not a cost, they are an investment

    Medicines are not a cost, they are an investment

    New Zealand’s long-standing approach to medicines funding has been shaped by a simple imperative: contain cost. That focus has delivered a system that is regarded as less than efficient, but increasingly, it is also being questioned as insufficient. At the heart of the issue is a framing problem. Medicines are too often treated purely as…