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Advocacy Campaign: We Won’t Stop Funding August 2025
August 2025 marks one year since Pharmac - Te Pātaka Whaioranga announced they would be funding continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), insulin pumps, and insulin pump consumables for people with type 1 diabetes.
Thanks to public pressure and the voice of our diabetes community this historic milestone was finally reached, after many years of advocacy.
It was a huge step forward – but thousands of New Zealanders who use insulin are still missing out.
We are now calling on Pharmac to finish the job and fund CGMs for all people with type 2 diabetes who manage their diabetes with insulin and have higher risk for hypoglycaemia and small and large blood vessel disease; including Māori or Pacific people, those diagnosed at a young age, and around pregnancy.
CGMs save lives and offer greater freedom - but right now, access depends on income or diagnosis. That’s not fair.
If you agree CGMs should be funded for all, please sign our petition.
Advocacy Campaign: We Won’t Stop Funding confirmed in 2024 for all people living with type 1 diabetes
April 2024 was a historic milestone for our diabetes community and for all those living with type 1 diabetes. Pharmac – Te Pātaka Whaioranga announced their proposal to provide full funded access to continuous glucose monitoring (CGMs), insulin pumps, and insulin pump consumables for all people living with type 1 diabetes. Diabetes NZ and the diabetes community have been actively advocating for many years for this vital technology to be funded. We thank everyone who has been involved with this advocacy.
Pharmac is proposing to fund a range of devices for New Zealanders with type 1 diabetes. For many of the 18,000 New Zealanders living with type 1 diabetes, having funded access to continuous glucose monitors (CGMs), insulin pumps, and automated insulin delivery (AID) systems would be life changing.
In May Pharmac announced a delay in their proposals around the funding of CGMs, insulin pumps and insulin consumables. We are so close to achieving this ultimate goal and remain committed to working with Pharmac while representing the diabetes community.
We will not stop until CGMs are funded for all, so the advocacy will continue.
Advocacy Campaign 2023: We Won’t Stop
June 2023 marked two years since Diabetes NZ presented at a parliamentary select committee hearing to advocate for CGM funding. Over the past five years we have laid the groundwork for a final push that advocates strongly for the funding of CGMs.
Now is the time to make this a political issue New Zealanders care about.
We are kicking off the next stage with our campaign: We Won’t Stop
We Won’t Stop until all New Zealanders living with diabetes who are using insulin have access to the global standard of care, including funded CGMs to manage their diabetes and avoid complications.
Join us now!
Look out for the posts on social media and like, share and tag others in these – help to get the message out far and wide to have an impact.
Update your profile picture on social media to show your support of the campaign.
Contact your local Member of Parliament.
Share your story. What would funded CGMs mean to you and others living with diabetes?
Jump to:
Responses from Political Parties on ‘What specific policies do you have that will help adults and children living with diabetes?’
Read our response to Pharmac’s formal request to suppliers to submit proposals on CGM technology here
Watch the Health Select Video from 2019
To ask a question, share your experience or if you think there is something that should be considered contact us here
Meeting your local M.P. – this document can help you organise a meeting with your MP – the who, why and how to find, organise and meet with MP’s
CGM Access for all Flyer - this is about why we are advocating for CGM’s and may be able to help in your meeting with your MP
CGM Advocacy Factsheet - this has key facts and numbers from the t1d index around how CGMs are better for everyone – better for people with T1D, better for the health system and better for the NZ economy.
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Encourage others to #ShareTheirStories and #JoinTheCampaign!
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Thank you to everyone who is joining us on our journey. Want to be part of that? Email your story to comms@diabetes.org.nz and help us make #CGMforall a reality.