Table 1.

Stakeholder characteristics: stakeholders n = 20

Stakeholder	Number	Comments
Academia (A)	3	Sociologists (2), Pharmacoeconomist (1)
Public service (PS)	5	Politician (1), Medsafe (1), Policy analyst (1), DHB planning (1), Pharmac (1)
Medicine (M)	4	Oncologist (1), General practice (3)
Pharmacist (Ph)	3	DHB (2), Community (1)
Pharmaceutical industry (PI)	2	Manufacturing (1), Representative (1)
Patient Group Representative (PGR)	2	Long-term conditions (2)
Private Health Care Organisation (PHCO)	1	Medical doctor (1)
Additional attributes of stakeholders
▸ 3 Medically qualified doctors		▸ 1 Health professional of Māori ethnicity
▸ 1 Pharmacist		▸ 4 Doctors’ past or current medical group representation
▸ 3 Scientists		▸ 3 GPs’ ethnicities: Māori, Indian and Asian; past or currently practising in areas with high numbers of respective ethnicity, including Pacifica
▸ 1 Medical IT
▸ 1 Therapeutic assessor