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Funding for Male and Female Medications (twice updated)Peter Zohrab 2019 |
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Email to PharmacReply from PharmacSecond Email to PharmacSecond reply from PharmacThird reply from PharmacSubstantive reply from Pharmac
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Dear sir/Madam,Under the Official Information Act, for the most recent year for which you have figures, could you please state (a) the annual number of, and (b) annual amount of funding allocated to:
Thank you in advance.Yours sincerely,Peter Zohrab
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I received the following reply: |
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Hi PeterYou can search for medicines use on the Ministry of Health's DataPharm tool.You will need to specify the medicines you want data for.The costs of each medicine can be found on Pharmac's online schedule.You can contact the Ministry of Health data team at data-enquiries@health.govt.nz if you require assistance with the tool.I note that we don’t allocate funding to a particular medicine.Donna Jennings | Communications Advisor--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------PHARMAC | PO Box 10 254 | Level 10, 40 Mercer Street, WellingtonDDI: +64 4 901 3234 | P: +64 4 460 4990 | F: +64 4 460 4995 | www.pharmac.govt.nz
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I replied as follows:
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Dear Donna Jennings,Thank you for your reply. My response is as follows:
Yours sincerely,Peter Zohrab |
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I received the following reply:
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Dear PeterThanks for your query.Can you also please provide a time period for the data search (we have data back to 1993)? That will help us to process your request.The only expenditure figures we have are based on claims data, would you like to reword your request on that basis?Thanks and regardsSimon England | Senior Communications Adviser___________________________________________________________________
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Before I had time to reply to the above, I received a third message from Pharmac, as follows:
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Dear PeterThis is to acknowledge we have received your request for information under the Official Information Act (1982) and have started working on it. We will have a reply to you as soon as possible and no later than the due date of 15 October.Please be aware that we may publish our response to you on our website. Should you wish to amend your request, please get in touch with us as soon as possible.Kind regardsSimon England | Senior Communications Adviser___________________________________________________________________ |
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In due course, I received the following substantive reply from Pharmac:
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See also:
-- Hamill, Jasper (2019): "Men are more disadvantaged than women in the UK, US and most of Europe, scientists claim." Metro, 4 Jan 2019.
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