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Pharmac has recently decided to re-evaluate their policy that paediatric cancer medication is automatically funded without an assessment.  Pharmac has always automatically funded all medicine used to treat paediatric cancer, and this policy has been in place since 2005. Patient Voice Aotearoa advocate Fiona Tolich doesn't approve that re-evaluating this policy is even up for discussion, and that more medical treatments should receive automatic funding, as opposed to less. "It's the one area of cancer where our outcomes are better than Australia, and we're consulting around changing it. It just doesn't make any sense." LISTEN ABOVESee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.