Prescription Access Initiative puts out two surveys

Universal fees-free prescriptions are in jeopardy, as National and ACT are wishing to introduce a targeted patient copayment. In order to support reasons why fees-free prescriptions should be kept for all New Zealanders, we are asking pharmacists to share their stories of the joys and benefits of the copayment removal by October 30.

Please share this CAPE survey with your community pharmacist colleagues! All responses will be kept anonymous, and we plan to use the data to inform the public and government.

Click here for Community and Pharmacy Effects (CAPE) survey

Feel free to share this CAPE survey with your community pharmacist colleagues – we will be sharing it far and wide.

In addition, we are collecting data on prescription volume change and uncollected prescriptions since the 1 July change. You may have responded to our previous request in June, but we are now asking again for data from your dispensaries with a short prescription count survey. Now – in order to indicate how much impact the removal of the patient copayment has had – we welcome you to fill out the follow-up count survey by October 30.

Click here for the Counting Uncollected Prescriptions (CUP) survey

Thank you for your ongoing involvement! The survey will give us vital data in order to inform the public and government about the effects of prescription costs. As with the previous survey, the identity of each survey participant is kept strictly confidential.

Thank you so much for being a part of the continued action on Universal Co-Pay Removal