Gordon Campbell on what John Key should be asking Joe Biden
Key needs to be asking Biden about how and why the White House is busily circumventing the TPP deal signed in Auckland earlier this year. First published on Werewolf
Health Policy
RCEP trade agreement threatens access to affordable medicine
Press Release – University of Auckland Medecins Sans Frontieres say: RCEP trade agreement threatens access to affordable medicines for half the worlds population
Gordon Campbell on tobacco politics, and the TPP death watch
Column – Gordon Campbell Has Act leader David Seymour got the easiest job in the world, or what? Roll out of bed, turn on the radio and hmmthere do seem to be a lot of problems out there in the world. Must think of something. And so it came to pass that this morning , …
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Pharmac funding still short
Press Release – Green Party The Green Party welcomes the announcement that Pharmac will get an extra $39 million in funding, but is calling for the Government to immediately release Pharmacs advice on how much money it actually needs.
TPP’s biologics data protection
Article – BusinessDesk April 27 (BusinessDesk) – The Trans-Pacific Partnership’s longer data protection for biologic pharmaceutical makers will push up the cost of the fastest growing primary health treatment in the country, the Medical Association says.
Government must protect Pharmac as promised
Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party John Key must tell New Zealanders that he will not bow to pressure from wealthy drug companies or their US negotiators and put Kiwi lives at risk, Labours Health spokesperson Annette King says.
Fraught TPP process has lessons for the future
Press Release – Public Health Association The Public Health Association (PHA) has told the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Select Committee that the lack of information, deliberate secrecy and poor recognition of the importance of health have made the TPP process fraught with problems, and …
Plain packaging: why are we waiting?
Press Release – Smokefree Coalition The Smokefree Coalition, along with groups like the Cancer Society, has been advocating for plain packaging since the measure was adopted in Australia back in 2011. Similar legislation was introduced here in 2014 but has been back-burnered due to Government …
Gordon Campbell on the Defence Force’s spending bonanza
Column – Gordon Campbell It has been a fairly typical week for this government mental health services in Christchurch slashed , further massive cuts to DHB funding , and the abdication of its responsibility for social housing .
Government still won’t come clean on TPPA and Pharmac
Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party That the Government has blacked out entire pages of briefings on how the TPPA might impact on Pharmac is hardly transparent, says Labours spokesperson on Health Annette King.
Lives lost as funding indecision continues
Press Release – New Zealand Labour Party Annette King Deputy Leader Health Spokesperson 22 January 2016 Lives lost as funding indecision continues
Government returning to failed market approach to health
Press Release – ASMS The Government appears to be sidling back to a market-drive approach to the provision of public hospital services, says Ian Powell, Executive Director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists (ASMS).
