Routine enrolled GP clinic visits in Auckland commonly cost about NZ$26–NZ$65.
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Sessions at clinics in Auckland, New Zealand, typically cost NZ$80–NZ$140 each.
MOSTLY BS
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New Zealand
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Community Services Card holders generally pay no co-payment for fully subsidised prescriptions.
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In New Zealand, funded sumatriptan and funded rizatriptan are available at the standard prescription co-payment of about NZ$5 for people with a Community Services Card.
TOTAL BS
Only sumatriptan and rizatriptan are publicly funded triptans in New Zealand.
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Only two of seven triptan medicines available globally are publicly funded in New Zealand: sumatriptan and rizatriptan.
NOT BS
Living Cell Technologies’ New Zealand trial transplanted Auckland Island pig islet cells into 14 type 1 diabetes patients.
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Living Cell Technologies conducted clinical trials in New Zealand in which islet cells from Auckland Island pigs were transplanted into eight patients with type 1 diabetes.
HARDLY BS
New Zealand’s official transplant waiting list was 420 people on 31 December 2011.
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In 2011, there were 400 people on the transplant waiting list in New Zealand.
HARDLY BS
New Zealand waiting-list deaths each year are far below hundreds.
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In New Zealand, having fewer than 9 deceased organ donors per million people results in hundreds of patients dying each year while waiting for organ transplants.
TOTAL BS