Prescribing

The COVID-19 pandemic provides the perfect opportunity to highlight the high number of incorrect prescriptions being sent through the New Zealand Electronic Prescription Service (NZePS), and to finally get something done about the problem

The COVID-19 pandemic provides the perfect opportunity to highlight the high number of incorrect prescriptions being sent through the New Zealand Electronic Prescription Service (NZePS), and to finally get something done about the problem.

Pharmac's First ethnicity criteria for a Special Authority drug have led to a “fantastic” Māori uptake of new diabetes medications, says National Hauora Coalition clinical director and GP Rawiri McKree Jansen.

The New Zealand Medical Association is opposing a proposed expansion of the number of medicines pharmacist prescribers can prescribe

Nearly all GP Clinics are now using the New Zealand ePrescription Service, thanks to COVID-19.

Pharmacist prescribers are supporting a petition made by nurse practitioners to reduce restrictions on non-medical prescribers

A change to prescribing rules will make it easier for almost 100,000 New Zealanders to get the medicines they need, according to both the Ministry of Health’s Chief Nursing Officer Lorraine Hetaraka and Pharmac's Director of Operations Lisa Williams

The Government has extended the waiver allowing pharmacies to dispense non-NZePS (New Zealand Electronic Prescription Service) prescriptions without a physical prescriber signature until 20 September

New figures show the rate of antidepressants being prescribed over the past four years is at an all-time high and there's a huge disparity between ethnic groups

COVID-19’s effect has seen the signature-exempt prescribing waiver extended again, until 21 June