In 2025, cost is only a barrier to 3.6% of people accessing prescriptions

Five dollar prescription surcharges were removed in July 2023 and reintroduced in July 2024

a graph showing dropping rates of people saying cost was a barrier to accessing prescriptions

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Data is retroactive; participants are asked whether cost has been a barrier in the past year. Because data was collected between July 2024 and 2025, information from this year's may go back to August 2023

Chart: Shanti MathiasSource: Ministry of HealthGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper