Prescription fee

Jonathan Chilton-Towle speaks to Moore Markhams Auckland director Jonathan Roberts about the New Zealand Pharmacy Benchmarking Survey 2024

University of Otago researchers are calling for the $5 prescription copayment to be scrapped after their randomised control trial showed the fee is damaging the health of vulnerable populations. 

A new poll suggests 86 percent of people support or strongly support keeping prescriptions free. Even those who back the parties that make up the Coalition Government are largely in favour of not reintroducing the charges

2023 was a huge year for pharmacy. Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks back at the biggest events

REMOVING THE $5 prescription fee has made healthcare in New Zealand demonstrably better and pharmacists think the National Party’s plan to reinstate the fees for most people will have “disastrous” consequences, a survey conducted by the Prescription Access Initiative shows.

2023 was a huge year for pharmacy. Jonathan Chilton-Towle looks back at the biggest events

New health minister Shane Reti is working on bringing back the $5 prescription copayment for most people but is not sure exactly when it will happen 

The incoming coalition Government is committed to bringing back the $5 prescription fee, ACT Party leader David Seymour says

Removing the $5 prescription fee has made healthcare in New Zealand demonstrably better and pharmacists think National’s plan to restore the fees for most people will have “disastrous” consequences, a survey conducted by the Prescription Access Initiative shows

A pharmacy group that lobbied for the $5 prescription fee to be dropped is optimistic that the final election result will make it harder for the new Government to reintroduce the fee