Further to WPQ 20207, did the Minister instruct Pharmac, formally or informally, to review or remove ethnicity-based criteria across the diabetes and cardiovascular medicine groups, and if so, on what date and in what form? and 1 other question

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Debbie Ngarewa-Packer

Member for Te Tai Hauāuru · Te Pāti Māori

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  Further to WPQ 20207, did the Minister instruct Pharmac, formally or informally, to review or remove ethnicity-based criteria across the diabetes and cardiovascular medicine groups, and if so, on what date and in what form?

• 28198

  Further to WPQ 20207, How does the Minister reconcile his claim that he gave no specific instruction on ethnicity-based criteria given that the Letter of Expectations directed Pharmac to give effect to Cabinet Circular CO(24)?