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Recent Additions

February 2013 – The ATM Coalition is becoming revitalised following cuts to medicine funding and major problems with access to specialised medicines. Watch this space.

August 2011 – Our worst fears are realised. Read the detailed analysis of Pharmac’s new NPPA scheme on the website of NZORD, the NZ Organisation for Rare Disorders.

March 2011 – submission to Pharmac on the review of the exceptional circumstances scheme (pdf file)

Access to Medicines Coalition (ATM)

The ATM combines the voices of a large number of non-government organisations advocating for improved access to medicines in New Zealand. Members of the coalition are all disease-specific groups that provide support, information/education, health promotion or clinical services to their constituent groups. Our aim is to reduce the number of people affected by the conditions we represent and to increase the health, wellbeing and quality of life of these individuals, their families and communities.

We believe the government of New Zealand has a responsibility to all New Zealanders to operate an equitable pharmaceutical funding system that places health outcomes as its primary priority and recognises its role as fundamentally integrated with the overall health system.