9 July 2020 - Most funded medicines will return to all at once dispensing because PHARMAC is removing most of the temporary dispensing restrictions put in place to manage supply during COVID-19. 

The change will be effective from midnight Friday 31 July 2020.

“This means that from Saturday 1 August pharmacists will be able to return to dispensing three months' supply all at once for most medicines, with exceptions for those medicines which have continuing problems with supply,” explains PHARMAC’s director of operations Lisa Williams. “Medicines that were on monthly dispensing before 27 March 2020 will of course also continue to be dispensed monthly.”

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