N24 medication (tasimelteon)
Mal Robertson made this Official Information request to Medicines Classification Committee
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From: Mal Robertson
Dear Medicines Classification Committee,
Could you please provide information regarding tasimelteon as a treatment for N24 disorder in New Zealand? Specifically, the accessibility, legality, cost, and any other relevant information relating to New Zealanders using tasimelteon.
If tasimelteon is not available in this country at this stage, please provide any information regarding the decision to not make it available, if this information exists. If there has not been a decision, and this medication is not available to New Zealanders, please advise why this is.
If tasimelteon is available, please advise approximate numbers of those regularly receiving this medication in 2023, if you hold this data.
Yours faithfully,
M Robertson
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