The Medical Services Advisory Committee has responded to the health minister's assessment of its decision-making as "clunky" and causing deaths due to delays in funded access by deferring an outcome on the therapy that was the source of the critique. …
MSAC doubles-down and defers outcome despite minister's criticism of delays and deaths
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