During my first week in Sydney both Josie and Judith Lacey worked hard and spoke to various people of influence to help get some attention for the Alimta campaign. It was about to be decided on by Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) and so I appreciated the efforts of them both of them in helping to get this important issue heard.
Josie was successful in getting Cameron Murphy of the Civil Liberties Council of NSW to talk about my blog on radio 2UE to highlight the cost of the Alimta drug and the unfairness in its availability to those that can't afford it. Here is link to it. They talk about it about 15 minutes into the radio show.
The submission for PBAC was on the 31st of October but the outcome won't be public until December 14th. I'm not sure why it takes so long to be public. I don't know if the fact that there are elections are responsible for this or not.
Anyway I will write about the rest of my trip and put up photos. I just wanted to get this bit up first.
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Great to see you are back. Hope the trip went well. Good news that there has been success in getting greater profile and publicity for Alimta. Fingers crossed the PBAC decision goes the way you want it to.
Hi Anita
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