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Exceptional circumstances pathway recognises uniqueness of patients
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Exceptional circumstances pathway recognises uniqueness of patients
Friday 22 November 2024, 10:20 AM

Pharmac’s exceptional circumstances framework can help a person with exceptional clinical needs get a medicine they can’t access through the pharmaceutical schedule [Image: Anunay Rai on Unsplash]
Adrienne Martin explains Pharmac’s exceptional circumstances framework, outlining how it connects with the national funding process and how clinicians submit applications on behalf of patients
As clinicians, all people you treat are unique, and sometimes people are so unique that usual funding mechanisms for medicines don’t quite fit for the
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