Medicines Classification Committee

Cough syrups and lozenges containing pholcodine have been recalled from pharmacy shelves in Australia and are under review in New Zealand 

FROM THE START of next month, medicine containing pholcodine must be moved off the shelves and into the pharmacist-only section

Overdoses from opiates are on the rise and the NZ Drug Foundation says we need to better prepared for a looming crisis 

FROM THE START of next month, medicine containing pholcodine must be moved off the shelves and into the pharmacist-only section.

Routine childhood vaccines look to be on the list of vaccines the Ministry of Health is seeking to have reclassified so pharmacists can administer them

The NZ Drug Foundation is pleased the Medicines Classification Committee has removed some of the red tape blocking access to the lifesaving, overdose reversal medication naloxone, although it wishes the committee’s recommendations had gone further.

The New Zealand Drug Foundation has asked the Medicines Classification Committee to improve access to the lifesaving, overdose-reversal medication naloxone in pharmacy.

The New Zealand Drug Foundation is asking the Medicines Classification Committee to improve access to the lifesaving, overdose-reversal medication naloxone

An application to reclassify the gout prevention medicine allopurinol for dispensing without a prescription by trained pharmacists, has been delayed at the request of the submitter

An application to reclassify the gout prevention medicine allopurinol for dispensing without a prescription by trained pharmacists, has been delayed at the request of the submitter.