Posted by Michael Wonder on 26 Mar 2020
PHARMAC places temporary dispensing limits on all funded community medicines
26 March 2020 - PHARMAC is placing temporary dispensing limits on all funded community medicines from Friday 27 March 2020.
Changes will be made to the Pharmaceutical Schedule, which is a list of the prescription medicines and therapeutic products subsidised by the Government, restricting the dispensing of funded community medicines to just one month's supply at a time. The change is effective from midnight tonight, 26 March 2020.
“This means that from tomorrow (Friday) community pharmacists will be required to limit dispensing of all funded medicines to one month's supply or three-months for oral contraceptives,” explains PHARMAC’s Chief Executive Sarah Fitt.
