Prescribing

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 

A medical centre’s poor systems resulted in repeated over-prescribing and a patient developing drug-induced Cushing’s syndrome 

A new set of competency standards for pharmacist prescribers is unlikely to attract flak when it comes into force next month

With so much change caused by COVID-19 afoot, Pharmacy Today asked pharmacists just after the national lockdown what other changes they wanted to see