Consultation on Amendments to the Specified Prescription Medicines List for Designated Pharmacist Prescribers

The Ministry of Health wants to hear your feedback on the proposed amendments to the specified prescription medicines list for designated pharmacist prescribers.

The current schedule of prescription medicines came into effect in May 2022. Since then, new medicines have become available in New Zealand, to which wider access would benefit patients. The schedule needs to be amended to reflect these additional medicines. The Pharmacy Council has recommended a list of medicines it considers appropriate for designated pharmacist prescribers.

It is important to the Ministry of Health that we hear from the public and organisations such as your own during this process. On behalf of the Director-General, we are opening a consultation period for anyone who may be affected by the change to the lists of medicines. Once this period of consultation has closed, a legal change will be made by Gazette notice as specified in section 105E(1) of the Medicines Act 1981.