Budget 2023

Two months after copayments were dropped from most medicines, many still don’t know about it, and pharmacists are calling for Te Whatu Ora to do more advertising. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

Two months after copayments were dropped from most medicines, many still don’t know about it, and pharmacists are calling for Te Whatu Ora to do more advertising. Natasha Jojoa Burling reports

On 1 July, the $5 prescription fee was removed for all New Zealanders. Natasha Jojoa Burling checks in with pharmacists to see what happened after this historic event

Pharmacists around New Zealand are ecstatic that the $5 prescription fee has been removed in the 2023 Budget. Jonathan Chilton-Towle reports

The Government’s announcement that it was scrapping the $5 prescription fee from 1 July caught the pharmacy sector by surprise, but health minister Ayesha Verrall says the policy had been planned for some time

A National government would reinstate the prescription fee for those who can afford to pay it, and target those who can’t, says health spokesperson Shane Reti 

Pharmacists around New Zealand are ecstatic that the $5 prescription fee has been removed in the 2023 Budget 

The Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild) is welcoming the government’s removal of the $5 prescription charge in today’s Budget, with effect from 1 July 2023

The following documents relate to spending outlined in Budget 2023, the sixth Budget of finance minister Grant Robertson (Labour). Full Budget details can be found on the Treasury website

Leading healthcare provider ProCare has today welcomed the removal of the $5 prescription co payment, as announced in today’s Budget