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GM's access call gets personal

 Posted 10 March 2026 AM

AbbVie Vice President and General Manager ANZ, Nathalie McNeil, has shared her father-in-law's struggle to access funded treatment after a prostate cancer diagnosis, to illustrate the urgent need for PBS reform.

In an op-ed on Linkedin, McNeil laid out the brutal truth that for many patients the wait for treatment can take years "and for some, they face the real possibility of not getting the medicine they need or die waiting."

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