THE New Zealand Medicines Classification Committee (MCC) has recommended that the classification of selected oral contraceptives (OCs) be changed to allow supply by pharmacists in certain circumstances, the Ministry of Health has announced.
The reclassification would mean that pharmacists can sell up to six months' supply of selected OCs to a woman who has been prescribed the same type of OC within the last three years from the date of an original medical practitioner's prescription and has not developed risk factors.
The proposal, first submitted in 2014, has been extensively reviewed and discussed by the MCC, but the final decision on the reclassification rests with Medsafe.
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