Prescription fee

Three Invercargill pharmacists have set up shop in Invercargill’s Very Low Cost Access practice, He Puna Waiora Wellness Centre, introducing a new way for patients to meet copayment costs. 

Chemist Warehouse is opening new stores outside Auckland for the first time, in Hamilton and Tauranga. 

A trial of free prescriptions at Nelson’s Hardy Street Pharmacy has been so successful, the owner is opening a second pharmacy, also offering free scripts

Countdown Pharmacy has dropped prescription fees at 29 of its 30 New Zealand pharmacies, with only its Invercargill business retaining the copayment

Pharmacists say yes, health minister says no to a proposal diverting millions to eliminating patient prescription copayments