554 1993/115

THE DRUG TARIFF 1998

PURSUANT to section 99 of the Social Security Act 1964, the Minister of Health hereby gives the following direction.

ANALYSIS PART V

ABATEMENTS 15. Group 2 cardholders 1. Title and commencement 16. Certain other cardholders 2. Interpretation 17. Contraceptives 18. Requirements in excess of 20 PART I 19. Class B controlled drugs REQ.UIREMENTS 20. The Hokianga 3. Requirements generally 4. Certain requirements excluded 5. Standards PART VI PRIGING PART II 21. Application of Pricing Schedules PERIOD AND QUANTITY OF SUPPLY 22. Computation of selling price 6. Doctors' and midwives' prescriptions 23. Rounding calculations (other than oral contraceptives) 24. Minimum charges 7. Oral contraceptives 25. Water 8. Dentists' prescriptions 26. Payments for bulk supply orders 9. Original packs, and certain antibiotics 27. Payment for practitioners' supply orders PART III 28. Allergy treatment sets CHARGES 29. Disputes 10. Restriction on charges I!. Part charges 12. Other permitted charges PART VII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS PART IV 30. Claims on Department CALCULATION OF PAYMENTS 31. Bulk supply orders 13. Requirements other than hypodermic 32. Practitioner's supply orders syringes and needles 33. Wholesale supply orders 14. Hypodermic syringes and non· 34. Revocations and savings disposable hypodermic needles Schedules 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 555

DIRECTION 1. Tide and commencement-(I) This direction may be cited as the Drug Tariff 1993. (2) This direction shall come into force on the 1st day of May 1993. 2. Interpretation-(I) In this direction, unless the context otherwise requires,- "The Act" means the Social Security Act 1964: "Board" means an Area Health Board under the Area Health Boards Act 1983 or a Hospital Board under the Hospitals Act 1952: "Child" means an unmarried person who­ (a) Is under 16; or (b) Is under 18 and is not financially independent: "Class B controlled drug" means a Class B controlled drug within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975: "Controlled drug" means a controlled drug within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 (other than a controlled drug specified in Part VI of the Third Schedule to that Act): "Couple" means a man and woman who are either- (a) Legally married to each other, and not living apart; or (b) Living together in a relationship in the nature of marriage: "Dentist" means a person registered as a dentist under the Dental Act 1988: "The Department" means the Department of Health: "Dependent child", in relation to any person, means a child whose care is primarily the responsibility of that person; and who­ (a) Is being maintained as a member of that person's family; -and (b) Is fmancially dependent on that person; and (c) Is not a child in respect of whom payments are being made under section 363 of the Children, Young Persons, and Their Families Act 1989: "Director-General" means the chief executive of the Department: "Doctor" means a medical practitioner registered under the Medical Practitioners Act 1968: "Family unit" means- (a) A couple, and one or more dependent children of one or other or both of them; or (b) A couple with no dependent children; or (c) One person and one or more dependent children; or (d) One person who is not a member of a family unit of a kind described in paragraphs (a) to (c) of this definition: "Financially independent" means- (a) In full employment (as defmed in section 3 (1) of the Act); or (b) In receipt of a basic grant or an independent circumstances grant under the Student Allowances Regulations 1991; or (c) In receipt of payments under a Government-assisted scheme that the Director-General of Social Welfare considers analagous to a benefit; or (d) In receipt of a benefit under Part I of the Act: "The First Schedule" means the First Schedule to this direction: 556 Drug Tariff 199.3 1993/115

"Group 1 cardholder" means the holder of an Wlexpired group 1 card (within the meaning of regulation 2 of the Social Security (Entitlement Card) Regulations 1991): "Group 2 cardholder" means the holder of an Wlexpired group 2 card (within the meaning of regulation 2 of the Social Security (Entitlement Card) Regulations 1991): "GST" means goods and services tax Wlder the Goods and Services Tax Act 1985: "High use cardholder" means the holder of an Wlexpired high use health card issued Wlder regulation 4 of the Social Security (Medical Fees) Regulations 1986: "Licensed hospital" means a place or institution that is- (a) A licensed hospital within the meaning of Part V of the Hospitals Act 1957; or (b) Recognised and approved as a hospital for the purposes of Part 11 of the Act: "Midwife" means a person whose name appears for the time being in that part of the Register of Nurses kept Wlder section 16 of the Nurses Act 1977 relating to registered midwives: "Month" means a period of 30 consecutive days: "Outpatient", in relation to a requirement, means a person who, as part of treatment at a hospital Wlder the control of a Board, is prescribed the requirement for consumption or use in the person's home: "Payment" means payment by the Department in accordance with this direction: "Practitioner" means a person who is a doctor, a dentist, or a midwife: "Practitioner's supply order" means a written order made by a practitioner for a requirement or requirements the practitioner expects to need for personal administration to patients Wlder the practitioner's care or for use in emergencies: "Pricmg Schedules" means the direction given by the Minister of Health (Wlder the name 'The Prescription Pricing Schedules') Wlder section 99 of the Act that is for the time being in force: "Proprietary preparation" means a requirement that is supplied by reference to a trade mark or trade name or by reference to the name of its manufacturer: "The regulations" means the Social Security (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1965: "Requirement" means a pharmaceutical requirement: "Specialist", in relation to a prescription, means a doctor­ (a) Who- (i) Is a specialist (whether for the purposes of sections 93 and 94 of the Act or for the purposes of section 113 of the Act) within the meaning of section 88 of the Act; and (ii) Has written the prescription in the course of practising in the specialty in respect of which the doctor has specialist status; or (b) Who- (i) Is for the time being recognised by the Director-General as a specialist (in relation to a particular area of medicine) for the purposes of this direction; and 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 557

(ii) Has written the prescription in the course of practising in that area of medicine. (2) Except as provided in subclause (1) of this clause, terms defined in section 88 of the Act or regulation 2 of the regulations have the meanings given to them by that section or regulation. PART I REQUIREMENTS 8. Requirelllents generally-Subject to­ (a) Clause 4 of this direction; and (b) The conditions (if any) specified in the second column of Part 11 of the First Schedule opposite the reference to it in the first column of that Part,- every medicine, drug, appliance, and thing specified in the first column of Part 11 of the First Schedule, and every preparation (having an inert base) of any of them, is hereby declared to be included in this direction and to be a requirement for its purposes. 4. Certain requirelllents excluded-Medicines, drugs, and material of the following classes are not included in this direction and are not requirements: (a) Substances, or combinations of substances, ordered for any purpose other than- (i) Treatment of a patient's medical or dental condition; or (ii) Pregnancy tests; or (iii) The prevention of sexually transmitted disease; or (iv) Contraception: (b) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule that they may be so packed, substances, and combinations of substances, packed under pressure in aerosol cans or other similar devices: (c) Electrode jellies: (d) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule that they may be so packed, eye drops packed in single·dose units: (e) Insect repellants and similar preparations: (f) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule that they may be in such a form, oral preparations in long.acting form: (g) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule that they may be in such a form, substances or combinations of substances, in lozenge or similar form: (h) Machine·spread plasters: (i) Preparations prescribed as foods: 0) Unless they are deemed or declared to be requirements elsewhere in this direction, substances, combinations of substances, or articles, in the form of proprietary medicines or proprietary articles: (k) Shampoos (other than extemporaneously prepared medicated shampoos, or shampoos specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule, intended for the treatment of a patient's medical condition): (1) Toilet preparations: (m) Tooth pastes and powders: (n) Lubricating jellies and catheter lubricants: (0) Sterile diluents for nebulising solutions: (p) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule that they may be in such a form, substances in a form intended to enable delivery 558 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

by transdennal diffusion or osmosis or by the insertion of any solid object or substance into the eye cavity: (q) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule that they may be in such a fonn, substances in a fonn intended for intravenous delivery (otherwise than by injection): (r) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule that they may be so packed, substances packed in pre-Ioaded syringes known as Min-IJets: (s) Unless they are specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule otherwise than in combination with other ingredients, requirements prescribed as cough mixtures: (t) Unless they are specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule, vitamin preparations in capsule form: (u) Unless it is specified in Part 11 of the First Schedule that they may be prescribed for such use, substances prescribed for use as irrigating solutions. 5. Standards-No claim by a contractor for payment in respect of the supply of requirements shall be allowed unless the requirements so supplied- (a) Comply with the appropriate standards prescribed by regulations for the time being in force under the Medicines Act 1981; or (b) In the absence of any such standards, comply with the appropriate standards for the time being prescribed by the British Pharmacopoeia; or (c) In the absence of the standards described in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this clause, comply with the appropriate standards for the time being prescribed by the British Pharmaceutical Codex; or (d) In the absence of the standards described in paragraphs (a) to (c) of this clause, are of a grade and quality not lower than those usually applicable to requirements intended to be used for medical purposes.

PART 11 PERIOD AND QUANTITY OF SUPPLY 6. Doctors' and midwives' prescriptions (other than oral contraceptives)-In the case of a prescription for a requirement (other than an oral contraceptive) written by a doctor or midwife, the following provisions shall apply: (a) In the case of a requirement other than a Class B controlled drug, payment shall be made for only an amount of the requirement sufficient to provide treatment for a period of not more than 3 months: (b) In the case of methylphenidate hydrochloride and dexamphetamine sulphate, payment may be made for only an amount of the requirement sufficient to provide treatment for a period not exceeding 1 month: (c) In the case of a Class B controlled drug (other than methylphenidate hydrochloride and dexamphetamine sulphate), payment shall be made for only an amount of the requirement- (i) Sufficient to provide treatment for a period not exceeding 10 days; and 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 559 (ii) Dispensed pursuant to a prescription for an amount of the requirement sufficient to provide treatment for a period not exceeding 1 month: (d) Where the doctor or midwife has prescribed a quantity sufficient to provide treatment for more than 1 month, the requirement shall be dispensed in monthly lots, unless- (i) The doctor or midwife endorses the prescription with the quantity to be dispensed on one or more occasions or with a statement of the period for which one or more lots is to be dispensed; or (ii) The contractor or the patient endorses the back of the prescription with a statement of the special reasons why a greater quantity is required to be dispensed: (e) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this clause, where the doctor or midwife prescribes a requirement specified in the First Schedule as being subject to "antibiotic restriction", payment may be made for only such amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for a period not exceeding 4 days and, where the prescription specifies a repeat, for only such further amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for one further period not exceeding 4 days unless the doctor or midwife endorses the prescription with the words "extended supply", and specifies in it the quantity required or the period for which treatment is required, in which case payment may be made for the actual quantity dispensed if that quantity does not exceed that necessary to provide treatment for a period of 3 months; but where a patient is receiving an extended supply of such a requirement, that requirement shall be dispensed in monthly lots, unless- (i) The doctor or midwife endorses the prescription with the quantity to be dispensed on one or more occasions or with a statement of the period for which one or more lots is to be dispensed; or (ii) The contractor or the patient endorses the prescription with a statement of the special reasons why a greater quantity is required to be dispensed: (f) Any prescription that is not presented to a contractor for dispensing within 7 days of its being written in the case of a Class B controlled drug, or within 3 months of its being written in any other case, shall cease to be a charge to the Department: (g) A repeat on a prescription that remains unfulfilled after- (i) Three months from the date of first dispensing in the case of a prescription for a pharmaceutical requirement for a total supply of from 1 to 3 months; or (ii) One month from the date of first dispensing in any other case- shall cease to be a charge to the Department; but the contractor concerned may submit a claim for the part fulfilment of the total quantity ordered in respect of the part that is due for payment and payment may be made accordingly: (h) Notwithstanding anything in this direction, but subject to paragraph (k) of this clause, a requirement (other than an antibiotic, antidepressant, or antipsychotic, or a Class B controlled drug) 560 Drug Tariff 199.3 1993/115

prescribed on a prescription for a quantity sufficient for use for 1 month or more, and dispensed in a quantity smaller than a quantity sufficient for use for 1 month, shall be a claim on the Department to the extent only that it would be if dispensed as a quantity sufficient for use for 1 month: (i) Notwithstanding anything in this direction, but subject to paragraph (k) of this clause, a requirement (other than an antibiotic, antidepressant, or antipsychotic, or a Class B controlled drug) prescnbed on a prescription for a quantity sufficient for use for less than 1 month, and dispensed in a quantity smaller than the quantity prescribed, shall be a claim on the Department to the extent only that it would be if dispensed as 1 quantity: (j) Notwithstanding anything in this direction, a requirement (other than an antibiotic, antidepressant, or antipsychotic, or a Class B controlled drug) prescribed for treatment for a period of less than one month (in this paragraph referred to as the latest period) in respect of a condition for which that requirement has been dispensed for treatment for a continuous period that, when added to the latest period, forms a continuous period of not less than 1 month, shall be a claim on the Department to the extent only that the quantity of the requirement prescribed for treatment for that condition and dispensed during the period of 1 month ending with the close of the latest period would be a claim on the Department: (k) Where- (i) A requirement is a medicine that is stable for a limited period only, and the practitioner concerned has endorsed the prescription with the words "unstable medicine" and a specification of the maximum quantity that may be dispensed at anyone time; or (ii) A requirement is a medicine that is stable for a limited period only, and the contractor has endorsed the prescription with the words "unstable medicine" and a specification of the maximum quantity that, in the contractor's opinion, should be dispensed at anyone time in all the circumstances of the particular case; or (iii) A requirement is prescribed for a patient who, in the opinion of the practitioner concerned, needs close control of access to requirements of that kind, and the practitioner has endorsed the prescription with the words "close control" and a specification of the maximum quantity that may be dispensed at anyone time,- the requirement shall be a claim on the Department to the extent that it would be if dispensed in that quantity (and any final smaller quantity).

7. Oral contraceptives-In the case of a prescription for a requirement that is an oral contraceptive, the following provisions shall apply: (a) The doctor concerned shall specifY in the prescription the period of treatment for which the requirement is to be supplied (not exceeding 6 months) and payment may be made for the actual quantity dispensed: 1993/115 Drug Tariff 199.3 561

(b) Subject to paragraph (d) of this clause, where a period not exceeding 3 months has so been specified, the requirement shall be dispensed- (i) In lots specified in the prescription; or (ii) Where no lots are so specified, in one lot: (c) Subject to paragraph (d) of this clause where a period exceeding 3 months or more has so been specified, the requirement shall be dispensed- (i) Where the doctor has endorsed the prescription with a direction that it be so dispensed, in such lots as may be specified in the direction; or (ii) Where the doctor has not so endorsed the prescription, in one lot sufficient to provide treatment for 3 months and one further lot: (d) Where a contractor is satisfied that there are exceptional reasons for the requirement to be supplied in lots larger than those specified in the prescription or, as the case may be, larger than those sufficient to provide treatment for periods of 3 months, and endorses the prescription to that effect, the requirement shall be dispensed in such lots as the contractor thinks fit: (e) If the prescription is not presented to a contractor for dispensing within 3 months of its being written, the requirements on it shall cease to be a charge to the Department: (f) Where the prescription specifies a period of treatment for which the requirement is to be supplied that exceeds 3 months, a repeat on the prescription that remains unfulfilled- (i) Where the first lot was sufficient to provide treatment for 3 months, after 4 months; and (ii) Where the first lot was not sufficient to provide treatment for 3 months, after 6 months- from the date of first dispensing shall cease to be a charge to the Department; but the contractor concerned may submit a claim for the part fulfilment of the total quantity ordered in respect of the part that is due for payment, and payment may be made accordingly.

8. Dentists' prescriptions-In the case of a prescription for a requirement written by a dentist, the following provisions shall apply: (a) Payment may be made for only such amount ofthe requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for- (i) A period not exceeding 5 days, where the requirement is a controlled drug; and (ii) A period not exceeding 5 days and, where the prescription specifies a repeat, for only such further amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for one further period not exceeding 5 days, in every other case: (b) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this clause, where the dentist prescribes a requirement specified in the First Schedule as being subject to "antibiotic restriction", payment may be made for only such amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for a period not exceeding 4 days and, where the 562 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

prescription specifies a repeat, for only such further amount of the requirement as is sufficient to provide treatment for one further period not exceeding 4 days: (c) Notwithstanding paragraph (a) of this clause, where, in the opinion of the dentist a patient needs extended treatment with sodium fluoride for a period of 1 month or more, a supply of sodium fluoride, not exceeding a quantity sufficient to provide that patient with treatment for a specified period of from 1 to 3 months, may be made on anyone prescription; and, if the dentist specifies on it the period for which that requirement is to be supplied, payment shall be made in respect of a claim made accordingfy; but where a patient is receiving an extended supply of sodium fluoride, it shall be dispensed in monthly lots, unless- (i) The dentist endorses the prescription with a statement of the period for which each lot is to be dispensed; or (ii) The contractor or the patient endorses the back of the prescription with a statement of the special reasons why a quantity greater or less than a monthly lot is required to be dispensed: (d) Any prescription that is not presented to the contractor for dispensing within 7 days of its being written in the case of a Class B controlled drug, or 3 months of its being written in any other case, shall cease to be a charge to the Department: (e) A repeat on a prescription that remains unfulfilled after 3 months from the date of first dispensing of any requirement named in the prescription in the case of a prescription for sodium fluoride, or after 1 month in any other case, shall cease to be a charge to the Department; but the contractor concerned may submit a claim for the part fulfilment of the total quantity ordered in respect of the part that is due for payment, and payment shall be made accordingly. 9. Original packs, and certain antibiotics-( 1) Notwithstanding clauses 6 and 8 of this direction, if a practitioner orders a requirement that is packed in a special container from which it is not practicable to dispense lesser amounts, or in a collapsible tube, every reference in those clauses to an amount for which payment may be made shall be deemed to be a reference- (a) Where an amount by weight or volume of the requirement is specified in the prescription, to the smallest container of the requirement, or the smallest number of containers of the requirement, sufficient to provide that amount; and (b) In every other case, to the amount contained in the smallest container of the requirement that is manufactured in or imported into New Zealand. (2) If a practitioner orders, in an amount that does not coincide with the amount of a standard pack or any number of standard packs a requirement that is the liquid oral form of an antibiotic that requires the addition of a diluent at the time of dispensing, payment may be made for a standard pack or a combination of standard packs (instead of for the quantity prescribed in accordance with clause 6 or clause 8 of this direction, as the case may be) only if the contractor satisfies the Department that the contractor has not been able to dispense the balance of the pack or packs. 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 563

PART III CHARGES 10. Restriction on charges-Except as provided in this Part of this direction, every requirement provided to a person as a pharmaceutical benefit shall be provided to the person free of charge. 11. Part charges-A contractor may charge a customer with the lesser of- (a) Any amount that (subject to Part V of this direction) is required by clause 13 or clause 14 of this direction to be subtracted from the payment for it: (b) The total payment due (or any part of it). 12. Other pennitted charges-A contractor may charge a customer­ (a) For delivery of a requirement elsewhere than at the pharmacy or other place of business of the contractor, a reasonable fee in accordance with regulation 14 (2) of the regulations: (b) The price of any requirement supplied in excess of the maximum quantity specified for it in this direction: (c) 40 cents (inclusive of eST) for a requirement dispensed as a pharmaceutical benefit in a pharmacy to which section 46 of the Pharmacy Act 1970 applies: (d) Any sum the contractor thinks fit for a requirement dispensed as a pharmaceutical benefit (otherwise than in a pharmacy to which section 46 of the Pharmacy Act 1970 applies) at any time not within the ordinary hours of shop trading in the locality in which the contractor carries on business: (e) In the case of a requirement (other than an antibiotic, antidepressant, or antipsychotic, or a Class B controlled drug) prescribed on a prescription for a quantity sufficient for use for 1 month or more and dispensed in a quantity smaller than a quantity sufficient for use for 1 month, the amount (if any) by which all costs in fact incurred in dispensing the quantity dispensed, or any quantity or quantities dispensed earlier on the prescription, exceeds the sum of- (i) All costs that would have been incurred in dispensing the quantity dispensed, and any quantity or quantities dispensed earlier on the prescription, in quantities sufficient for use for 1 month (together with any necessary smaller final quantity); and (ii) All charges made under this paragraph in respect of any quantity or quantities already dispensed on the prescription: (f) In the case of a requirement (other than an antibiotic, antidepressant, or antipsychotic, or a Class B controlled drug) prescribed on a prescription for a quantity sufficient for use for less than 1 month and dispensed in a quantity smaller than the quantity prescribed, the amount (if any) by which- (i) All costs in fact incurred in dispensing the quantity dispensed, or any quantity or quantities dispensed earlier on the prescription; exceeds (ii) The costs that would have been incurred in dispensing the quantity prescribed as 1 quantity: (g) In the case of a requirement (other than an antibiotic, antidepressant, or antipsychotic, or a Class B controlled drug) prescribed for 564 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

treatment for a period of less than 1 month (in this paragraph referred to as the latest period) in respect of a condition for which that requirement has been dispensed for treatment for a period that, when added to the latest period, is not less than 1 month, the amount (if any) by which all costs in fact incurred in dispensing (during the period of 1 month ending with the close of the latest period after the most recent dispensing of the requirement) the quantity dispensed, or any quantity or quantities of the requirement prescribed for treatment for that condition on any prescription, exceeds the sum of- (i) The costs of dispensing as a single quantity an amount of the requirement sufficient for treatment for that condition for 1 month; and (ii) All charges made under this paragraph during that month in respect of any quantity or quantities of the requirement prescribed for treatment for that condition already dispensed: (h) In the case of a requirement that is a preparation prescribed by a practitioner, all or any part of- (i) 150 percent of the amount by which the price the contractor paid for it exceeded 0.80 of its selling price (wbere the contractor obtained it from the source from which it was available most cheaply in the fonn in which it was prescribed); or (ii) 150 percent of the amount by which the price the contractor would have paid for it if the contractor had bought it from the source from which it was available most cheaply in the fonn in which it was prescribed exceeded 0.80 of its selling price (where the contractor did not obtain it from the source from which it was available most cheaply in the fonn in which it was prescribed),- together with any GST payable by the contractor in respect of the amount charged.

PART IV CALCULATION OF PAYMENTS 18. Requirements other than hypodermic syringes and needles­ Except in the case of a requirement supplied on a bulk supply order or practitioner's supply order, payment for a requirement (other than a hypodermic syringe or hypodermic needle) when dispensed shall be cafculated by adding together- (a) Where the contractor does not compound it from ingredients, the selling price; and (b) Where the contractor compounds it from ingredients, at the option of the contractor, either- (i) The total selling price of its ingredients; or (ii) For each ingredient, the average ingredient price (if any) for the time being agreed by the Director·General and Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (Inc.) for the purposes of this paragraph; and (c) Whether or not it is dispensed in a container,- (i) The amount specified in the Second Schedule to the Pricing Schedules for the average container charge; and (ii) If it is dispensed in a container with a child·resistant closure, the amount specified in that schedule for such a closure; and 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 565

(d) The appropriate professional fee set out in the Third Schedule to the Pricing Schedules; and (e) If it is the residue of a quantity of a Class B controlled drug that was prescribed as an initial supply but could not, at the time of initial dispensing, be supplied in that quantity, the appropriate additional fee set out in that schedule; and (f) The amount (if any) of GST payable in respect of the dispensing of the requirement,- and, subject to Part V of this direction, subtracting $15. 14. Hypodennic syringes and non-disposable hypodermic needleS-Payment to a contractor for hypodermic syringes, and non· disposable needles for hypodermic syringes, shall be computed by adding together- (a) The importer's selling price for them; and (b) 42.31 percent of that price; and (c) The appropriate professional fee,- and, subject to Part V of this direction, subtracting $15.

PART V ABATEMENTS 15. Group 2 cardholders-Subject to clauses 17 to 20 of this direction, in the calculation under clause 13 or clause 14 of this direction of payment for a requirement, only $4 shall be subtracted if- (a) The person for whom it is prescribed is a group 2 cardholder; and (b) The prescription concerned is either endorsed to that effect by the practitioner concerned or (where the contractor concerned is satisfied that the endorsement or lack of endorsement of the practitioner is erroneous) endorsed to that effect, and initialled, by the contractor; and (c) The prescription relates only to requirements prescribed for the person. 16. Certain other cardholders-Subject to clauses 18 to 20 of this direction, in the calculation under clause 13 or clause 14 of this direction of payment for a requirement, only $3 shall be subtracted if- (a) The person for whom it is prescribed is a high use cardholder, a group 1 cardholder, or a dependent child ofa group 1 or group 2 cardholder; and (b) The prescription concerned is either endorsed to that effect by the practitioner concerned or (where the contractor concerned is satisfied that the endorsement or lack of endorsement of the practitioner is erroneous) endorsed to that effect, and initialled, by the contractor; and (c) The prescription relates only to requirements prescribed for the person. 17. Contraceptives-Subject to clauses 18 to 20 of this direction, in the calculation under clause 13 of this direction of payment for a contraceptive prescribed on a prescription relating only to contraceptives prescribed for one person, only $3 shall be subtracted. 18. Requirements in excess of 20-(1) Subject to clauses 19 and 20 of this direction and subclause (2) of this clause, in the calculation under clause 13 or clause 14 of this direction of payment for a requirement 566 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115 dispensed on any day, only $2 shall be subtracted if the prescnptlOn concerned relates only to requirements prescribed for 1 person, and the contractor concerned- (a) Is satisfied that the person is, or is a member of, a family unit that has already obtained 20 or more requirements (being requirements in respect of which any amount is, subject to this clause, required by one of those clauses to be subtracted) in the year ending immediately before the 1st day of February following the dispensing of the requirement; and (b) Has endorsed the prescription to that effect and initialled it. (2) In the calculation under clause 13 or clause 14 of this direction of payment for a requirement dispensed on any day, no sum shall be subtracted if the prescription concerned relates only to requirements prescribed for 1 person, and the contractor concerned- (a) Is satisfied that the person is, or is a member of, a family unit that- (i) Has already obtained 20 or more requirements (being requirements in respect of which any amount is, subject to this clause, required by one of those clauses to be subtracted) in the year ending immediately before the 1st day of February following the dispensing of the requirement; and (ii) Comprises or includes a group 1 cardholder or a group 2 cardholder; and (b) Has endorsed the prescription to that effect and initialled it. (3) For the purposes of subclauses (1) and (2) of this clause, requirements prescribed on a prescription shall be treated as having been dispensed and obtained consecutively. 19. Class B controlled drugs-No sum shall be subtracted in the calculation under clause 13 of this direction of payment for a Class B controlled drug (other than methylphenidate hydrochloride or dexamphetarnine sulphate). 20. The Hokianga-No sum shall be subtracted in the calculation under clause 13 or clause 14 of this direction of payment for a requirement dispensed for a person when the person is resident in the Hokianga Ward of the Far North District.

PART VI PRICING 21. Application of Pricing Schedules-Notwithstanding anything in Part IV of this direction, payments in respect of claims for requirements received by the Department on or after the 16th day after the effective date of any new or revised Pricing Schedules shall be calculated in accordance with those schedules, whatever the date of the claims. 22. Computation of selling price-(I) The selling price for any requirement listed in the Pricing Schedules dispensed in any quantity shall be the price specified (in the column headed "Prescription Selling Price") in the First Schedule to the Pricing Schedules for the requirement when dispensed in that quantity. (2) The selling price for any requirement not listed in the Pricing Schedules shall be 137. 7 percent of the selling price of the manufacturer or importer (as the case may be). 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 567 (3) The principal quantities for the calculation of the selling price of requirements shall be 1 gram, 1 millilitre, a specified number, and a specified pack. (4) If a requirement can be purchased in quantities other than those specified in subclause (3) of this clause, the selling price shall be calculated in proportion to those quantities. (5) Where a liquid requirement is purchased by weight and dispensed by volume, an appropriate adjustment, based on its specific gravity, shall be made in computing its selling price. (6) Subject to subclause (7) of this clause, all computations concerned with quantities of requirements that are specified in Part II of the First Schedule shall be made using the metric system. (7) If a requirement is prescribed or ordered in terms other than those of the metric system, computations shall follow the Apothecaries to Metric Conversion Tables for the time being approved for this purpose by the Minister. (8) Where a prescription for an injection orders the supply of a dry pack of a requirement together with one or more ampoules or vials of a sterile diluent, payment for the composite items shall be made as for one prescription. (9) Where- (a) A practitioner has endorsed a prescription for a requirement that is a medicine stable for a limited period only with the words "unstable medicine" and a specification of the maximum quantity that may be dispensed at anyone time; or (b) The contractor concerned has endorsed a prescription for a requirement that is a medicine stable for a limited period only witb the words "unstable medicine" and a specification of the maximum quantity that, in the contractor's opinion, should be dispensed at anyone time in all the circumstances of the particular case; or (c) A practitioner has endorsed a prescription for a requirement for a patient who (in the practitioner's opinion) needs close control of access to requirements of that Kind with the words "close control" and a specification of the maximum quantity that may be dispensed at anyone time,- payment shall be made by adding together the total selling price of the quantity of the requirement dispensed on each occasion, and the appropriate professional fee; but the Department may in its discretion refuse to pay the container allowance in respect of any second or subsequent dispensing. (10) Where the strength of a requirement is not indicated on a prescription the contractor shall endorse on it the strength supplied; and if the strength supplied is not endorsed payment shall be based on the price of the lowest strength available. (11) The selling price of a broken quantity of any requirement dispensed by number whose price is not specified in the Pricing Schedules shall be computed as the appropriate proportion of the selling price of the nearest greater quantity available.

28. Rounding calculations-(I) Calculations for the price of each ingredient shall be rounded to the nearest cent, but exact half cents shall be so expressed. The final half cent shall be rounded upwards to the nearest cent. 568 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

(2) Calculations for proportionate prices of requirements (other than ingredients) shall be rounded upwards to the nearest cent.

24. Minimum charges-( 1) The minimum charge for any ingredient in a mixture is 1 cent. (2) Subject to subclause (3) of this clause, the minimum total charge for all ingredients in a mixture is 5 cents. (3) Where the total selling price of all the ingredients in a mixture, including any that are not specified in this direction, exceeds 5 cents, payment shall be made for the total value of the ingredients that are specified in this direction rounded upwards to the nearest cent. (4) For the purposes of this clause the term "mixture" means any prescribed preparation requiring the admixture of 2 or more ingredients, including a vehicle or excipient.

25. Water-(I) Where the term "aqua" is used without qualification in a prescription, it shall be interpreted to mean wholesome drinking water. (2) Wholesome drinking water shall not be an ingredient bearing a charge on a prescription.

26. Payment for bulk supply orders-(I) Subject to subclauses (2) and (3) of this clause, there shall be made for requirements supplied on bulk supply orders the following payments: (a) For requirements (other than insulin preparations) listed in the Pricing Schedules, the selling price, plus 17.39 percent: (b) For requirements (other than insulin preparations) not so listed, the price charged to the contractor, plus 46.96 percent: (c) For insulin preparations, the price charged to the contractor, plus 35 percent. (2) No payment shall be made for containers supplied with requirements ordered on a bulk supply order. (3) Subject to subclause (4) of this clause, no payment shall be made for a professional fee in respect of requirements so ordered. (4) There shall be payable in respect of requirements so ordered compounded by the contractor concerned the fee specified in the Third Schedule to the Pricing Schedules, less 10 percent.

27. Payment for practitioners' supply orders-(I) There shall be made for requirements supplied on practitioners' supply orders the following payments: (a) The total selling price of those requirements: (b) Every time a professional fee is paid in respect of any such requirement, the average container charge specified in the Second Schedule to the Pricing Schedules: (c) The appropriate professional fee as set out in the Pricing Schedules. (2) For the purposes of subclause (1) (c) of this clause, the appropriate professional fee in respect of any requirement dispensed shall be- (a) For oral contraceptives, and all other items dispensed by count in packs of sizes listed in the column headed "Prescription Wholesale Price" in the First Schedule to the Pricing Schedules, the class A professional fee specified in those Schedules, in respect of each dispensing of dle item concerned regardless of the number of such packs dispensed: 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 569

(b) For all requirements (other than oral contraceptives) dispensed by count in packs of sizes not so listed, a single payment of the class A professional fee as aforesaid in respect of the total quantity of the requirement so dispensed: (c) Subject to paragraph (d) of this subclause, for requirements extemporaneously compounded by the contractor, the appropriate professional fee specified in the Third Schedule to diose Schedules: (d) For multiple packs of requirements extemporaneously compounded by the contractor on a single occasion, the appropriate professional fee as aforesaid for the first pack, and the cfass A professional fee as aforesaid for each additional pack dispensed with it.

28. Allergy treatment sets-(I) Subject to subclause (2) of this clause, payment in respect of an allergy treatment set shall be the amount specified from time to time in the Pricing Schedules or the amount approved from time to time by the Director·General. (2) In the case of a person for the time being approved by the Director· General as the manufacturer of approved allergy treatment sets, the amount payable in respect of any allergy treatment set shall be the amount approved from time to time by the Director·General.

29. Disputes-A contractor who disagrees with the Department's view in relation to any payment may apply in writing to the Director·General to have the matter reviewed; and in that case- (a) The Director·General shall refer the application to the appropriate committee for consideration and decision: (b) The committee shall consider the application and make to the Director·General any decision it thinks fit: (c) The Director·General shall notify the contractor of the decision: (d) The decision shall be final and binding on the contractor and the Director·General.

PART VII MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS SO. Claims on Department-(I) Pursuant to regulations 14 and 15 of the regulations, a contractor who wishes to submit claims for payment shall ao so in respect of any monthly or half·monthly period by submitting- (a) The prescriptions for all the requirements in respect of which any person is entitled to a pharmaceutical benefit, dispensed by the contractor during the period pursuant to a prescription; and (b) The orders for all the requirements dispensed by the contractor during the period pursuant to an order. (2) Subject to subcfause (3) of this clause, where a claim for payment in respect of requirements supplied relates to or includes any prescription or order that was last dispensed more than 3 months before the date on which the claim is first received by the Department, the amount due to the contractor in respect of every such prescription or order so dispensed shall, unless the contractor satisfies the Department that the contractor has a reasonable excuse for the delay in submitting the claim, and subject to any 570 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115 general or special directions given by the Director·General, be reduced by a discount of 20 percent. (3) No amount shall be reduced under subclause (2) of this clause, where the prescription concerned specifies that requirements are to be supplied for a period not exceeding 3 months and is fulfilled in part only and is received by the Department for payment within 6 months of the date of initial dispensing, or within 9 months in the case of a prescription form including an oral contraceptive. (4) Notwithstanding anything in this clause, any prescription or order that was last dispensed more than one year before the claim is received by the Department shall not be a charge to the Department unless the appropriate committee has considered the circumstances and recommended that it should be a charge. (5) For the purposes of this clause,- "Half.monthly period" means any period beginning with the 1st day and ending with the 15th day, or beginning with the 16th day and ending with the last day, of any calendar month: "Monthly period" means a period beginning with the 1st day and ending with the last day of any calendar month. 31. Bulk supply orders-(I) Notwithstanding anything in this direction, the licensee or manager of a licensed hospital or the matron or other person in charge of an institution approved by the Director·General may obtain, pursuant to a bulk supply order on a form to be supplied by the Department, such requirements as are expected to be required for the treatment of persons who are under medical or dental supervision in the hospital or institution; but- (a) Payment shall not be made for any requirement that is specifically restricted in the First Schedule: (b) The licensee or manager or, as the case may be, the matron or other person, may be called upon to justify the amount ordered: (c) No Class B controlled drug shall be obtained on a bulk supply order by any institution that is not a licensed hospital: (d) No item specified in Part I of the First Schedule to the Medicines Regulations 1984 shall be obtained on a bulk supply order by any institution that is not a licensed hospital, unless- (i) A registered general nurse, within the meaning of the Nurses Act 1977, is employed by the institution; and (ii) The order is supported by a written requisition signed by a practitioner. (2) Payment shall be made to the contractor on the presentation of the appropriate copy of a bulk supply order form (or, in the case of a bulk supply of a Class B controlled drug or for buprenorphine hydrochloride, a special bulk supply order form) supplied by the Department that- (a) Specifies the requirements that have been supplied; and (b) Has endorsed on it a receipt, signed and dated by the licensee or manager or, as the case may be, the matron or other person, indicating that the requirements have been received. (3) The quantities ordered on a bulk supply order shall be limited to those quantities that are sufficient to meet reasonable needs for a period not exceeding 1 month, after taking into account stock on hand at the time of preparing the requisition. (4) The Minister may at any time, by notice given in such manner as the Minister thinks proper, declare that any hospital or other approved 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 571 institution shall not be entitled to obtain supplies of requirements under this clause; and on the making of any such declaration this clause shall cease to apply with respect to that hospital or other approved institution. Any such notice may in like manner be revoked. 82. Practitioner's supply orders-(I) Subject to subclause (4) of this clause, notwithstanding anything in this direction, a jractitioner may obtain, pursuant to a practitioner's supply order an subject to any condition set out in Part 11 of the First Schedule,- (a) If the quantities ordered do not exceed those specified in the Second Schedule to this direction, any requirement specified in that Schedule: (b) If- (i) The practitioner'S normal practice 1S m the Hauraki Gulf Ward of Auckland City, the Strath Taieri Ward of Dunedin City, or a ward named irl the Third Schedule to this direction of a district named in the second column of that Schedule opposite the ward's name, or the practitioner is a locum for a practitioner whose normal practice is in such a ward; and (ii) The quantities ordered are reasonable for up to 1 month's supply in the conditions normally obtaining in the practice,­ such requirements as the practitioner expects to be required for personal admirlistration to patients under the practitioner's care. (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) of subclause (1) of this clause,- (a) No payment will be made under that paragraph for any requirement specifically restricted in Part 11 of the First Schedule; and (b) Before payment will be made under that paragraph, a practitioner may be called on to justifY the amounts of requirements ordered. (3) Subject to subclause (4) of this clause, payment shall be made to the contractor on the presentation of the practitioner'S supply order, on a form supplied by the Department, if at the time of supply the order­ (a) Is signed personally and dated by the practitioner; and (b) Sets out the practitioner's address; and (c) Sets out the requirements and the quantities of them ordered. (4) Any order for a Class B controlled drug or for buprenorphine hydrochloride shall be written on a controlled drug form supplied by the Department. (5) A practitioner may, except in exceptional circumstances, order only those requirements that the practitioner requires to admirlister personally to a patient or requires for emergency use until a supply can be obtained by the patient pursuant to a prescription. (6) The Mirlister may at any time, on the recommendation of the appropriate committee appoirlted under section 121 of the Act, by notice gIven in such manner as the Mirlister thinks proper, declare that any practitioner whose name is specified in the notice shall not be entitled to obtain supplies of requirements under this clause; and on the making of any such declaration this clause shall cease to apply with respect to that practitioner. Any such notice may in like manner be revoked. 88. Wholesale supply orders-( 1) Notwithstandirlg anything in this direction, but subject to subclause (4) of this clause, a practitioner may obtain, pursuant to a wholesale supply order on a form to be supplied by the Department, any requirement specified in the First Schedule as being available on such an order. 572 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

(2) Payment shall be made to the wholesaler or distributor on the presentation of the appropriate copy of the order form- (a) Signed and dated by the practitioner; and (b) Signed and dated by a person acting on behalf of the wholesaler or distributor concerned, at the time the pharmaceutical requirements specified on the form are supplied. (3) Payment for a requirement obtained on a wholesale supply order shcill be made at a rate not exceeding the wholesaler's selling price agreed by the Department, and in respect of a quantity no greater than is sufficient to meet the reasonabfe needs of the practitioner concerned (assessed in the light of stock in hand when the order is made) for a month. (4) The Minister may at any time, on the recommendation of the appropriate committee, by notice in writing given in such manner as the Minister thinks fit, declare that subclause (1) of this clause no longer applies to a specified practitioner; and in that case, until that notice is in like manner revoked, that subclause shall not apply to that practitioner. 84. Revocations and savings-(I) The following directions are hereby consequentially revoked: (a) The Drug Tariff 1990*: (b) The Drug Tariff 1990, Amendment No. 12t: (c) The Drug Tariff 1990, Amendment No. 131'. (2) Without limiting the provisions of the Acts Interpretation Act 1924, it is hereby declared that the revocation of any provision by this direction shall not affect any document made or anything whatsoever done under the provision so revoked or any corresponding former provision, and every such document or thing, so far as it is subsisting or in force at the time of the revocation and could have been made or done under this direction, shall continue and have effect as if it had been made or done under the corresponding provision of this direction and as if that provision had been in force when the document was made or the thing was done.

·S.R. 1990/~26 tS.R. 1992/~29 ~S.R. 1992/~69 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 573

SCHEDULES

FIRST SCHEDULE Cl. 3 LIST OF REQUIREMENTS FOR WHICH PAYMENT IS ALLOWED OR CONDITIONALLY ALLOWED PART I Definitions 1. "Antibiotic restriction" means that payment for prescriptions for oral forms of the requirement shall not be made unless it is dispensed in accordance with clause 27 (e) or clause 29 (b) of this direction (as the case requires).

2. "Approved type" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is cif a type approved by the Director-General for the purposes of this direction.

3. "Diabetic supplies" means that payment shall not be made unless there is produced to the contractor a certificate that gives the name, address, and age of the patient and that- (a) Is signed by a medical practitioner; and (b) Is dated less than 2 years previously; and (c) States that the patient is receiving insulin therapy.

4. "Diabetic syringes" means that payment may be made for not more than 26 plastic syringes with attached needles as a single supply if the prescription is written on the same prescription fonn as a prescription for 3 months supply of insulin vials, or as a single supply, for not more than 2 plastic syringes with attached needle for every week's supply of insulin vials prescribed if the prescription for insulin calls for less than 3 months supply.

5. "Hospital Pharmacy" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied by a Board to an outpatient on the prescription of a practitioner.

6. "Hospital Pharmacy-dermatologist" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied by a Board­ (a) To an outpatient; and (b) On the prescription of a specialist in dermatology.

7. "Hospital Pharmacy-specialist" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied by a Board- (a) To an outpatient; and (b) On the prescription of a specialist,- or if the treatment of an outpatient with the requirement has been recommended by a specialist, on the prescription of a practitioner endorsed with the words "recommended by [Name of specialist and year of authorisation]" written in the practitioner's own handwriting or signed or initialled by the practitioner. A recommendation is valid until the expiration of the second year following the year of authorisation. 574 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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LIST OF REQUIREMENTS FOR WHICH PAYMENT IS ALLOWED OR CONDITIONALLY ALLOWED-continued PART I-continued Definitions-continued For the purposes of this definition it makes no difference whether the specialist is employed by the Board or not.

8. "Hospital pharmacy·specialist prescription" means that payment will not be made unless the requirement is supplied by a Board- (a) To an outpatient; and (b) On a prescription signed by a specialist.

9. "In combination" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is included in a prescription in combination with other requirements that are specified in Part 11 of the Schedule as being available otherwise than "in combination", and then only to the extent specified.

10. "Maternity hospital" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied pursuant to a bulk supply order to a maternity hospital licensed under the Hospitals Act 1957.

11. "Month restriction" means that- (a) Payment shall not be made unless the requirement is dispensed on the prescription of a practitioner; and (b) Payment shall not be made for any quantity of the requirement concerned dispensed on the prescription (whether or not dispensed as a repeat) in excess of a quantity that is a supply for one month.

12. "Not in combination" means that- (a) Payment shall not be made unless the requirement is dispensed on the prescription of a practitioner; and (b) Payment shall not be made for any prescription containing the requirement in combination with other ingredients unless the particular combination of ingredients is separately specified in Part 11 of the Schedule, and then only to the extent specified.

13. "Retail Pharmacy-specialist" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied on a prescription, or practitioner's supply order, signed by a specialist, or, in the case of treatment recommended by a specialist, a prescription or practitioner's supply order signed by a practitioner and endorsed with the words "recommended by [Name of specialist and year of authorisation]" written in the practitioner's own handwriting or signed or initialled by the practitioner. A recommendation shall be valid until the expiration of the second year following the year of authorisation.

14. "Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription" means that payment shall not be made unless the requirement is supplied on a prescription, or practitioner's supply order, signed by a specialist. 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 575

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Acebutolol hydrochloride Acebutolol hydrochloride with hydrochloro- thiazide tablets Acetazolamide and its salts Acetazolamide long acting capsules __ Acetic acid and acetic acid, glacial __ Acetic acid with boric acid, hydroxyquinoline sulphate and ricinoleic acid vaginal jelly Acetic acid with 1,2-propanedioI diacetate and benzethonium chloride ear drops Acetone Not if ordered on a practitioner's supply order or a bulk supply order Acipimox capsules Retail Phannacy-specialist Acitretin capsules Hospital Pharmacy-dermatologist Acriflavine hyrochloride Acyclovir eye ointment Retail Pharmacy-specialist Acyclovir skin cream (a) Not on a bulk supply order, a practitioner's supply order, or a wholesale supply order (b) Not for any quantity exceeding 4 g, inclusive of any repeat, per prescription Acyclovir tablets 200 mg Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Acyclovir tablets 400 mg Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Adrenaline eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Adrenaline acid tartrate Adrenaline hydrochloride Adrenaline hydrochloride eye drops __ Retail Pharmacy-specialist Alclometasone dipropionate cream and ointment A1facalcidol capsules and oral drops __ Retail Pharmacy-specialist Alginic acid with magnesium trisilicate, aluminium hydroxide gel, dried, and sodium bicarbonate infant powder Alginic acid with magnesium trisilicate, aluminium hydroxide gel, dried, and sodium bicarbonate tablets Alkaline compound tablets (milk dextrin type) Approved type AIIantoin with sulphur, menthol, phenol and coal tar solution cream Allergy treatment sets Only if prepared and supplied by a manufacturer approved by the Director-General for the purposes of this direction Allopurinol tablets A1prazolam tablets (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist; and (b) Month restriction A1prenolol benzoate long-acting tablets and tablets Alprenolol hydrochloride long acting tablets Aluminium acetate solution BPC 1973 __ Aluminium chloride Aluminium powder __ Aluminium hydroxide gel Aluminium hydroxide gel, dried Aluminium hydroxide gel with kaolin mixture Aluminium hydroxide gel with magnesium hydroxide mixture 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 577

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Aluminium hydroxide gel with magnesium hydroxide and activated dimethicone mixture and tablets Aluminium hydroxide gel. dried. with magnesium hydroxide tablets Aluminium hydroxide gel dried. with magnesium trisilicate. magnesium hydroxide and dimethicone tablets Amantadine hydrochloride Retail Pharmacy-specialist Amaranth solution Amiloride hydrochloride with frusemide tablets Amiloride hydrochloride tablets Amiloride hydrochloride with hydrochlorothiazide Aminacrine hydrochloride Aminobenzoic acid Aminocaproic acid syrup and tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Aminoglutethirnide tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Aminophylline Amiodarone hydrochloride injection and tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Amitriptyline hydrochloride Amitriptyline pamoate syrup AmIodipine besylate tablets Ammonia solution. dilute BP Ammonia solution. strong BP Ammonium acetate solution. strong BP Amoxapine tablets Amoxycillin with potassium clavulanate syrup and Antibiotic restriction tablets Amoxycillin sodium only as injection Amoxycillin trihydrate (a) Antibiotic restriction (b) Not in any topical application Amphetamine sulphate Hospital Pharmacy Amphotericin Amphotericin lozenges Amyl nitrite Amylobarbitone and its sodium salt Month restriction Amylobarbitone sodium injection Anise water and anise water. concentrated In combination Apomorphine hydrochloride Aprotinin Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Aqueous cream BP Ascorbic acid Only on a prescription not exceeding a strength of 100 mg per dose Argipressin spray Aspirin (a) In combination (b) Only in extemporaneously compounded oral liquid mixtures Aspirin tablets 300 mg and 650 mg Aspirin long-acting tablets 650 mg Aspirin soluble tablets 300 mg Aspirin with chloroform (a) Only on a prescnptton when extemroraneously compounded (b) For topica use only

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Aspirin 250 mg with paracetamol 250 mg and codeine phosphate 8 mg tablets Aspirin, soluble, with codeine phosphate tablets Approved type Astemizole only as tablets Only on a prescription Atenolol Atenolol with chlorthalidone tablets Atropine sulphate Auranofin tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Azatadine maleate oral liquid and tablets Not in combination Azathioprine Retail Pharmacy-specialist Bacitracin and its salts with neomycin sulphate Not more than 15 g per prescription and polymyxin B sulphate ointment and powder Bacitracin and its salts with neomycin sulphate and polymyxin B sulphate solution Bacitracin and its salts with neomycin sulphate in Not more than 15 g per prescription proprietary preparations Baclofen Retail Pharmacy-specialist Beclomethasone dipropionate aerosol for oral use, aerosol for nasal use, nasal spray and powder for oral inhalation Beeswax, white Beeswax, yellow Benazellril tablets Bendrofluazide Benserazide hydrochloride with levodopa capsules and tablets Benserazide with levodopa long.acting capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist Bentonite Benzathine penicillin injection Benzoic acid .. Benzoic acid solution BP Benzoic acid ointment, compound BP Benzoin inhalation BP Benzoin tincture, BPC Benzoin tincture, compound, BP Benzoyl peroxide ...... Benzoyl ~xide lotion with or without sulphur Benztropme mesylate injection Only on a practitioner's supply order Benztropine mesylate tablets Benzydamine hydrochloride solution Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription Benzyl benzoate Benzyl benzoate application, BP Benzylpenicillin and its salts Not if in any topical application, unless it is separately specified in this Part of the Schedule Benzylpenicillin sodium injection and eye drops Benzylpenicillin and its salts, with or without procaine penicillin, benethamine penicil1in, or benzathine penicillin, for injection Beta·carotene capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist Betahistine hydrochloride tablets Retail pharmacy-specialist

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Betamethasone and its salts and esters, with or Retail Pharmacy-specialist without neomycin sulphate when supplied in the form of proprietary eye preparations Betamethasone and its salts and esters, with or without neomycin sulphate when supplied in the form of proprietary ear preparations Betamethasone dipropionate cream, ointment and scalp lotion Betamethasone dipropionate with clotrimazole cream Betamethasone dipropionate with salicylic acid lotion and ointment Betamethasone sodium phosphate as tablets Betamethasone sodium phosphate injection Betamethasone sodium phosphate with betamethasone acetate injection Betamethasone sodium phosphate with or without naphazoline nitrate nasal preparations Betamethasone valerate as a skin preparation Betamethasone valerate scalp lotion Betamethasone valerate with chlortetracycline Not more than 15 g per prescription hydrochloride, clioquinol, or neomycin sulphate, as a skin preparation Betamethasone valerate with fusidic acid cream Only on a prescription and when prescribed in a quantity not exceeding 15 g per prescription Betamethasone valerate with gentamicin sulphate Only on a prescription and when skin preparations prescribed in a quantity not exceeding 15 g per prescription Betamethasone with betamethasone sodium phosphate, intra-articular injection Betaxolol hydrochloride eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Bethanidine sulphate __ Bezafibrate tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Biperiden lactate injection Bisacodyl enema, suppositories and tablets Only on a prescription Bismuth carbonate Bismuth subnitrate Bismuth subnitrate with frangula bark, Month rest.riction magnesium carbonate and sodium bicarbonate tabfets Borax Boric acid Brilliant green Brilliant green and crystal violet paint BP Bromazepam tablets Month restriction Bromocriptine mesylate capsules and tablets Budesonide aerosol inhaler for nasal use, aerosol inhaler for oral use, nasal spray and powder for oral inhalation Buffered cream BP Bumetanide injection and tablets Buprenorphine hydrochloride injection Busulphan Retail Pharmacy-specialist Cade oil 580 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Calamine Calamine colloidal Calamine application, compound BPC Calamine cream aqueous BPC .. Calamine lotion BP Calamine lotion, oily BP Calamine ointment BP Calamine and coal tar ointment BP Calciferol Calcipotriol ointment Calcitonin injection Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Calcitriol capsules . . Retail Pharmacy-specialist Calcium carbimide tablets Calcium carbonate Calcium carbonate powder, compound BPC Calcium carbonate tablets Calcium carbonate with aminoacetic acid Calcium carbonate with aminoacetic acid and dimethicone oral liquid and tablets Calcium chloride . . . . Calcium folinate Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Calcium gluconate injection Calcium glucono·galacto·gluconate Calcium hydroxide .. Calcium lactate.gluconate tablets Calcium polystyrene sulphonate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Camphor spirit BPC 1959 Camphor water BPC and camphor water, In combination concentrate BPC Capreomycin injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Capsules, empty gelatin Only if dispensed with a requirement specified in this Part of the Schedule Captopril tablets . . . . Captopril with hydrochlorothiazide tablets Caramel In combination Carbachol eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Carbamazepine long·acting tablets, tablets and syrup Carbidopa with levodopa long.acting tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Carbidopa with levodopa tablets Carbimazole . . . . Cardamon tincture, compound BP Castor oil In combination Castor oil with resorcinol, salicylic acid and undecylenic alkanolamide scalp solution Cefaclor monohydrate capsules and oral Antibiotic restriction suspension 125 mg per 5 ml Cefamandole nafate injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy-specialist (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient, and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Cefoxitin sodium injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy-specialist (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis 1993/115 Drug Tariff 199.3 581

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patient. and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Ceftriaxone sodium injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy-specialist (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient. and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Cefuroxime sodium injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy-specialist (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient. and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Celiprolol hydrochloride tablets Cephalexin monohydrate (a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Anubiotic restriction Cephalothin sodium injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient. and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Cephazolin sodium injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient. and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Cephadrine capsules (a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Antibiotic restriction Cephadrine injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient. and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Cetomacrogol 1000 Cetomacrogol cream BP .. Cetomacrogol emulsitying ointment BP Cetomacrogol emulsitying wax BP Cetostearyl alcohol . . . . Cetrimide powder Only on a prescription for an extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or shampoo Cetrimide with chlorhexidine gluconate cream Maternity hospital Cetyl alcohol Charcoal Chloral hydrate (a) Month restriction (b) Not if in any proprietary liquid oral form. unless it is separately specified in this Part of the Schedule Chloral hydrate capsules Month restriction Chloral mixture BP Month restriction Chloral syrup B.P.C. 1968 Month restriction Chlorambucil .. Retail Pharmacy-specialist Chloramphenicol. its salts and esters Subject to- (a) Antibiotic restriction; and 582 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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(b) Retail Pharmacy specialist,- unless prescribed as an ingredient of a chloramphenicol topical preparation separately specified in this Pan of the Schedule Chloramphenicol ear drops Chloramphenicol eye drops Chloramphenicol eye ointment Chloramphenicol with polymyxin B sulphate proprietary ear drops, eye drops, eye ointment Chlordiazepoxide and its hydrochloride .. Month restriction Chlorhexidine diacetate powder . . . . Only on a prescription for an extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or shampoo Chlorhexidine gluconate Only- (a) When prescribed (alone or in combination) for renal dialysis in the home of the patient concerned; or (b) On a prescription for an extemporaneously compounded mouthwash or shampoo (c) In a quantity not exceeding 500 mls per month Chlorhexidine gluconate obstetric cream (a) Only Maternity hospital, or on the prescription of a practitioner (b) In a quantity not exceeding 500 ml per prescription or bulk supply order Chlorhexidine gluconate solution 5 percent (a) Only Maternity hospital, or on the prescription of a practitioner (b) In a quantity not exceeding 100 ml per prescription or bulk supply order Chlorhexidine gluconate with methylated spirits, Only when extemporaneously industrial, or with isopropyl alcohol compounded and prescribed in a quantity not exceeding 500 ml per month for dialysis patients Chlorinated lime Chlorinated lime and boric acid solution BP Chlormethiazole and its esters Month restriction Chlormethiazole edisylate intravenous infusion Chlorocresol Chloroform Only in combination for topical application or as an ingredient in a preparation for oral administration Chloroform and morphine tincture BP Chloroform spirit BP Chloroform water BP In combination Chloroquine phosphate Chloroquine sulphate 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 583

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Chlorothiazide Chlorpheniramine maleate long-acting capsules, Not in combination long-acting tablets, oral liquid and tablets Chlorpromazine and its salts and esters Chlortetracycline hydrochloride proprietary Not more than 15 g per prescription cream, proprietary ointment and proprietary topical powder Chlortetracycline hydrochloride topical preparations with or without other pharmaceutical requirements when extemporaneously prepared Chlorthalidone Chlorthalidone with metoprolol tartrate tablets Cholestyramine resin Retail Pharmacy-specialist Choline salicylate with cetalkonium chloride adhesive gel Choline theophyllinate with guaiphenesin Ciclopirox olamine cream and solution Cilazapril tablets Cimetidine injection Cimetidine tablets (a) Only on a prescription with a daily dose not exceeding 400 mg; or (b) Month restriction (c) Not as an effervescent or dispersible tablet Cinnamon oil In combination Cinnamon water In combination Ciprofloxacin tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Cisapride tablets and oral liquid (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist (b) Month restriction Citric acid Citronella oil In combination Clarithromycin tablets Antibiotic restriction Clindamycin hydrochloride capsules (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist (b) Antibiotic restriction Clindamycin palmitate-hydrochloride syrup (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist (b) Antibiotic restriction Clindamycin phosphate only as an injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Clindamycin phosphate as a proprietary topical solution or lotion Clobazam tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Clobetasol propionate cream, ointment, and scalp lotion Clobetasone butyrate cream and ointment Clobetasone butyrate with or without nemocyin Retail Pharmacy-specialist sulphate as eye drops Clofazimine Clofibrate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Clomiphene citrate tablets (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist (b) Only on a prescription for a female patient Clomipramine hydrochloride tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Clonazepam Clonidine hydrochloride tablets and injection 584 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Clonidine transdermal delivery system Only on a prescnptlon and not exceeding 1 patch per week Clopamide with pindolol tablets .. Clotrimazole lotion. skin cream. solution. vaginal cream and vaginal tablets Clove oil In combination Coal tar Coal tar. prepared BPC Coal tar paint BP Coal tar paste BP Coal tar solution BP Coal tar and salicylic acid ointment BP Coal tar and zinc ointment BP Cocoa In combination Coconut oil In combination Codeine linctus BP Not in combination Codeine linctus. diabetic BPC Not in combination Codeine linctus for infants BPC Not in combination Codeine phosphate Codeine phosphate syrup BPC Colchicine . . . . Colestipol hydrochloride Retail Pharmacy-specialist Colistin sulphate with neomycin sulphate and hydrocortisone acetate eardrops Colistin sulphomethate sodium injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy-specialist (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Collodion. flexible Contraceptives. caps (a) Approved type (b) Only on a wholesale supply order Contraceptives. condoms Approved type Contraceptives. condoms with a spermicidal agent Approved type Contraceptives. diaphragms Approved type Contraceptives. intra·uterine devices (a) Approved type (b) OIl.ly on a wholesale supply order Contraceptives. spermicidal agents (together with Approved type applicator when specified) Copper diagnostic tablets . . . . (a) Only in 36 tablet pack or packs (b) Not available on a bulk supply order Copper sulphate . . . . Copper and zinc sulphates lotion BPC Corticotrophin gelatin injection .. Cortisone acetate tablets Co·trimoxazole oral mixture and tablets Antibiotic restriction Crotamiton Crystal violet Cyclandelate Cyclizine. its salts and esters Cyclopenthiazide Cyclopentolate hydrochloride eye drops Only if not exceeding percent strength Cyclophosphamide Retail Pharmacy-specialist Cyproheptadine hydrochloride tablets (a) Only on a prescription 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 585

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(b) Not in combination Cyproterone acetate injection Hospital Pharmacy-specialist prescription Cyproterone acetate tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist prescription Cyproterone acetate with ethinyloestradiol tablets Only on a prescription and if not more than 3 months supply is prescribed Not when prescribed as a contraceptive Cytarabine Retail Pharmacy-specialist Danazol capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist Dantrolene sodium capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist Dapsone Dapsone with pyrimethamine as tablets Desferrioxamine mesylate Hospital Pharmacy Desipramine hydrochloride Hospital Pharmacy Desmopressin acetate nasal drops and nasal spray Retail Pharmacy-specialist Desogestrel with ethinyloestradiol tablets .. Detto1 solution ...... (a) Only Maternity hospital (b) In a quantity not exceeding 100 ml per bulk supply order Dexamethasone and its salts and esters, except Retail Pharmacy-specialist preparations listed elsewhere in this direction Dexamethasone as proprietary eye preparations Retail Pharmacy-specialist Dexamethasone with framycetin and gramicidin Retail Pharmacy-specialist proprietary eye preparations Dexamethasone with framycetin and gramicidin proprietary ear preparations Dexamethasone with neomycin sulphate and Retail Pharmacy-specialist polymyxin B sulphate as proprietary eye preparations Dexamethasone sodium phosphate injection Only on a wholesale supply order Dexamphetamine sulphate Hospital Pharmacy Dextrochlorpheniramine maleate long·acting Not in combination tablets, oral liquid and tablets Dextromoramide tartrate Dextropropoxyphene napsylate as capsules Dextropropoxyphene hydrochloride with paracetamol capsules Dextropropoxyphene napsylate with paracetamol tablets Dextrose In combination Dextrose, anhydrous as an ingredient of an injection Dextrose, injection Only- (a) In containers not exceeding 50 ml capacity (b) If prescribed in respect of bypoglycaemia Diazepam capsules, syrup and tablets Month restriction Diazepam injection Only if ordered otherwise than for anaesthetic procedures on a practitioners supply order of a doctor Diazepam rectal tubes and suppositories Dibromopropamidine isethionate 586 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Diclofenac sodium injection, long-acting capsules, long-acting tablets, suppositories and tablets Dicyclomine hydrochloride long-acting tablets, tablets and syrup Dienoestrol cream, together with applicator when specified Diethylcarbamazine citrate Diflucortolone valerate Diflucortolone valerate with chlorquinaldol cream Not more than 15 g per prescription Diflunisal tablets Digoxin Di-iodohydroxyquinoline compound vaginal tablets Dill water Diltiazem hydrochloride tablets and long-acting capsules Dimenhydrinate Dimercaprol Dimethicone Dimethicone cream BPC Dimethicone creams Approved type Diphemanil methylsulphate powder Only if prescribed for an amputee with an artificial limb, or for a paraplegic patient on a prescription endorsed accordingly Diphenhydramine hydrochloride capsules and Not in combination oral liquid Diphenoxylate hydrochloride with atropine sulphate only as tablets Dipivefrin hydrochloride eye drops in packs of Retail Pharmacy-specialist 7_5 ml Dipotassium hydrogen phosphate Dipyridamole injection, tablets and long-acting Retail Pharmacy-specialist capsules Disopyramide and its phosphate as capsules or long-acting tablets Disopyramide phosphate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Dispersa wax Distigmine bromide Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Disulfiram Dithranol Only in extemporaneously compounded preparations, unless separately specified in this Part of the Schedule Dithranol paste, strong BPC Dithranol paste, weak BPC Docusate sodium enema, and tablets Only on a prescription Docusate sodium with bisacodyl suppositories Only on a prescription Docusate sodium with senna standardised tablets Only on a prescription Domperidone tablets Dothiepin hydrochloride Doxazosin mesylate tablets Doxepin hydrochloride capsules and tablets Doxycycline hydrochloride capsules 100 mg, Antibiotic restriction tablets 50 mg and 100 mg, and injection 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 587

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Dydrogesterone tablets Econazole foaming solution Econazole nitrate Ecothiophate iodide Retail Phannacy-specialist Edrophonium chloride Electrolyte lowder, for solution for oral use as approve by the Director-General Electrolyte solution for oral use (e.g., Darrow's According to a prescribed fonnula, or solution non-sterile; Hartmann's solution, non· by title sterile) Emep~onium carrageenate tablets Retail Phannacy-specialist EmulsIfying wax BP .. EmulsifYing ointment BP Enalapril maleate tablets Enalapril 20 mg with hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg tablets Enoxacin tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Ephedrine hydrochloride tablets Ephedrine nasal drops BPC Ergometrine and its salts Ergotamine tartrate Ergotamine tartrate aerosol inhaler Ergotamine tartrate with belladonna, caffeine and allylbarbituric acid suppositories Ergotamine tartrate with belladonna and phenobarbitone tablets and long-acting tablets Ergotamine tartrate with caffeine tablets Ergotamine tartrate with caffeine and cyclizine hydrochloride Ergotamine tartrate with caffeine citrate and diphenhydramine hydrochloride Erythromycin and its salts and esters (a) Antibiotic restriction (b) Not in any topical application unless it is separately specified in this Part of the Schedule Erythromycin as a proprietary topical solution Ethambutol . . . . Retail Phannacy-specialist Ethanol 90 percent Only in combination in oral mixtures Ether, solvent BPC Not on a practitioner's supply order or a bulk supply order Ethinyloestradiol Ethinyloestradiol with gestodene tablets Ethinyloestradiol with levonorgestrel Ethinyloestradiol with norethisterone Ethosuximide Ethynodiol diacetate tablets Ethynodiol diacetate with ethinyloestradiol Ethynodiol diacetate with mestranol Etidronate disodium tablets Retail Phannacy-specialist Etoposide capsules and injection Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Etretinate capsules Hospital Pharmacy-dermatologist Famotidine tablets Month restriction unless on a prescription with a daily dost: not exceeding 20 mg Felodipine long-acting tablets 588 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Fenbufen capsules and tablets Fenoprofen calcium capsules of 300 mg and tablets of 600 mg Ferrous gluconate Ferrous phosphate syrup, compound BPC 1968 Ferrous sulphate Ferrous sulphate, dried Ferrous sulphate long·acting tablets Ferrous sulphate mixture BPC Ferrous sulphate mixture for infants BP Ferrous sulphate with folic acid long. acting tablets Fibrinolysin with desoxyribonuclease powder and ointment. Applicator to be supplied with ointment when specified Fish liver oil ointment Flecainide acetate injection and tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluconazole capsules Hospital Pharmacy· specialist Flucloxacillin magnesium syrup Antibiotic restriction Flucloxacillin sodium capsules, injection and syrup Antibiotic restriction Flucytosine tablets ...... Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Fludrocortisone tablets of 0.1 mg strength .. Flumethasone pivalate with clioquinol ear drops Flunisolide nasal spray Fluocinolone acetonide scalp lotion Fluocinolone acetonide not exceeding 0.025 percent strength as skin preparations Fluocinonide cream Fluocortolone hexanoate with fluocortolone pivalate cream and ointment Fluocortolone hexanoate with fluocortolone pivalate, cinchocaine hydrochloride, and clemizole undecylate ointment and suppositories Fluocortolone pivalate with lidocaine hydrochloride suppositories Fluocortolone rivafate with lidocaine and chlorquinaldo cream Fluorometholone eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluorouracil topical solution and topical cream Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluorouracil sodium injection and oral solution Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluoxetine hydrochloride capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluoxymesterone .. Retail Pharmacy-specialist Flupenthixol decanoate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluphenazine decanoate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Fluphenazine hydrochloride Flurbiprofen tablets and long.acting capsules Flutamide tablets . . . . Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Folic acid and its sodium salt Formaldehyde solution Not available on a practitioner's supply order or a bulk supply order Framycetin sulphate tablets (a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Antibiotic restriction Framycetin sulphate injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 589

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patient, and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Framycetin sulphate proprietary eye and ear preparations Framycetin sulphate with gramicidin ointment Not more than 15 g per prescription and cream Frusemide injection, tablets of 40 mg strength and oral liquids Frusemide infusion 250 mg and tablets exceeding Retail Pharmacy-specialist 40 mg strength Fusidic acid cream and gel Only on a prescription and when prescribed in a quantity not exceeding 15 g per form Fusidic acid, diethanolamine salt injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy-specialist (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient, and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Fusidic acid, diethanolamine salt oral suspension Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Fusidic acid eye.drops Fusidic acid, sodium salt tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Fusidic acid, sodium salt ointment Only on a prescription and when prescribed in a quantity not exceeding 15 g per form Gamma benzene hexachloride Gamma benzene hexachloride application, BP Gelatin Gemfibrozil capsules .. Retail Pharmacy-specialist Gentamicin sulphate eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Gentamicin sulphate injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient, and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Gentamicin sulphate cream and ointment Only on a prescription and when prescribed in a quantity not exceeding 15 g per form Glibenclamide Gliclazide tablets Glipizide tablets Glucagon hydrochloride injection Glucose, liquefied 66.6% with simple syrup 33.3% In a quantity not exceeding 50 g per prescription. Only when extemporaneously compounded Glucose·oxidase with peroxidase diagnostic strips Not on a bulk supply order and sticks as approved by the Director·General (urine testing) Glucose oxidase with peroxidase diagnostic strips for insulin using diabetics as approved by the Director·General (blood testing) Glucose oxidase with peroxidase diagnostic sticks Not on a bulk supply order and sodium nitroprusside with aminoacetic acid diagnostic sticks as approved by the Director·General Glycerol In combination 590 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Glycerol suppositories Only on a prescription Glycerol with paraffin liquid and cetyl alcohol skin Only on the prescription of a doctor lotion Glycerophosphates syrup, compound BPC 1963 Glyceryl trinitrate aerosol inhaler, tablets, transdermal delivery system 5 mg, and ointment Glyceryl trinitrate transdermal delivery system Not more than 30 patches per month 10mg Glycopyrronium bromide tablets Griseofulvin .. Guanethidine sulphate Halibut·liver oil Haloperidol Haloperidol decanoate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Halquinol with tar Hamamelis water In combination Hard Fat suppository base In combination Heparin sodium .. Heparinoid hyaluronidase cream Not more than 14 g per prescription Hexamine hippurate tablets Hexoprenaline sulphate aerosol inhaler, injection, and tablets Homatropine hydrobromide Hyaluronidase Hydralazine hydrochloride Hydrochloric acid BP and hydrochloric acid, dilute BP Hydrochlorothiazide 12.5 mg with lisinopril 20 mg tablets Hydrochlorothiazide with metoprolol tartrate tablets Hydrocortisone and its acetate alone or in Not more than 15 g per prescription combination with other pharmaceutical when combined with antibacterial requirements when extemporaneously antibiotic agents prepared as a skin preparation and when supplied in the form of proprietary skin preparations Hydrocortisone and its acetate for intra· articular injection Hydrocortisone and hydrocortisone acetate tablets Hydrocortisone and its acetate alone or in combination with other pharmaceutical requirements when extemporaneously prepared as a suppository Hydrocortisone and its salts and esters, alone or in Retail Pharmacy-specialist combination with other pharmaceutical requirements when supplied as eye preparations Hydrocortisone and its salts and esters alone or in combination with other pharmaceutical requirements when supplied as ear, nose, or throat preparations 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 591

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Hydrocortisone with aesculin and cinchocaine hydrochloride ointment and suppositories Hydrocortisone with framycetin sulphate and cinchocaine hydrochloride Hydrocortisone with lignocaine hydrochoride, aluminium subacetate and zinc oxide ointment and suppositories Hydrocortisone with miconazole nitrate cream Not more than 15g per prescription Hydrocortisone with natamycin and neomycin Not more than 15g per prescription skin preparations Hydrocortisone with wool fat, hydrous and Only on the prescription of a doctor mineral oil lotion Hydrocortisone acetate foam as an aerosol Hydrocortisone acetate with oxytetracycline hydrochloride ear drops Hydrocortisone butyrate cream, ointment, and lotion Hydrocortisone butyrate with chlorquinaldol Not more than 15g per prescription cream and ointment Hydrocortisone sodium succinate intravenous Only a practitioner's supply order injection Hydrocortisone sodium succinate tablets 2.5 mg Hydrogen peroxide solution .. Hydroxocobalamin only as an injection Hydroxychloroquine sulphate Hydroxyurea capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist Hydroxyzine hydrochloride tablets Hyoscine hydrobromide Hyoscine methobromide Hyoscine N·butylbromide injection and tablets HypromeUose eye drops Ibuprofen long·acting tablets Ibuprofen oral mixture and tablets Ichthammol Ichthammol glycerin BPC Ichthammol ointment BP Idoxuridine eye ointment Idoxuridine skin ointment Idoxuridine topical solution Idoxuridine with dimethyl sulphoxide Only if extemporaneously prepared, and not exceeding 10 rnl per prescription Imipramine hydrochloride tablets Indapamide tablets Indomethacin capsules, long·acting capsules and Not in topical application suppositories Injections supplied in cartridge vial Only if separately specified in this Part of the Schedule Insulin injection 100 units per ml Insulin biphasic injection 100 units per ml Insulin isophane injection 100 units per ml Insulin isophane with insulin neutral injection 100 units per ml Insulin neutral injection 100 units per ml Insulin zinc suspension injection 100 units per ml 592 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Insulin zinc suspension amorphous injection 100 ms:!:ss:. -:!pension oystalline ~ection 100 units per ml Insulin isophane. human. injection 100 units per ml Insulin isoJ;>hane. human. with insulin neutral, human, mjection 100 units per ml Insulin neutral, human. injection 100 units per ml Insulin zinc suspension, human. injection 100 units perml insUlin zinc suspension. cystalline. human. injection 100 units per ml Intravenous fluids .. Only if the requirement is prescribed for renal dialysis. maternity or post natal care in the home of the patient concerned and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Iodine Not in any proprietary preparation Iodine ointment. non.staining BPC 1968 Iodine paint. compound BPC 1968 Iodine solution, aqueous BP Iodine solution, weak BP Only- (a) On the prescription of a practitioner; or (b) On a bulk supply order Ipecacuanha extract liquid BP Ipecacuanha tincture Ipratropium bromide aerosol inhaler for oral use. aerosol inhaler for nasal use and nebuliser solution in single dose units Iron carbohydrate complex intra·muscular Approved type injection Iron polymaltose injection Isoconazole nitrate skin cream and pessaries Isoniazid ...... Retail Pharmacy-specialist Isoniazid with rifampicin Retail Pharmacy-specialist Isoprenaline hydrochloride Isopropamide iodide tablets Isopropyl myristate with mineral oil and synthetic Only on the prescription of a doctor pine needle oil bath oil Isosorbide dinitrate tablets and long.acting tablets Isosorbide mononitrate long-acting capsules and long-acting tablets Isotretinoin capsules Hospital Pharmacy-dermatologist Isradipine tablets and long acting capsules Itraconazole capsules __ __ Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Kanamycin sulphate (a) Hospital Pharmacy-specialist (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient, and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Kaolin. colloidal Kaolin and morphine mixture BP Kaolin, light 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 593

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Kaolin mixture BP Kaolin mixture for infants BP Ketoconazole cream and shampoo Ketoconazole tablets __ Retail Pharmacy-specialist Ketoprofen capsules, long-acting capsules, suppositiories and tablets Ketoprofen injection Ketotifen oral liquid and tablets (a) Only on a prescription when prescribed for the prophylaxis of asthma (b) Not in combination Labetalol hydrochloride Lactic acid Lactose In combination Lactulose syrup Only on a prescription Lavender oil In combination Lead acetate Lead lotion BPC 1973 Lead lotion, compound BNF 1963 Lead lotion. evaporating BPC 1973 Lead subacetate solution. dilute BPC 1973 Lead subacetate solution. strong BPC 1973 Lemon oil In combination Lemon spirit Lemon syrup BP Levobunolol eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Levodopa Levonorgestrel Lignocaine hydrochloride injection (a) When ordered by a medical practitioner on a practitioner's supply order for ventricular arrhythmias and the order is endorsed accordingly; (b) When ordered for a dialysis patient or a child with rheumatic fever and the order is endorsed accordingly Lincomycin hydrochloride (a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Liothyronine sodium Liquorice extract BPC Liquorice extract. dry. compound. tablets Approved type Liquorice extract. liquid BP Lisinopril tablets Lisuride tablets Lithium carbonate capsules. tablets and long- acting tablets Loperamide hydrochoride only as capsules Loprazolam mesylate tablets Month restriction Loratadine tablets (a) Not in combination (b) Only on a prescription Lorazepam tablets Month restriction Lormetazepam capsules and tablets Month restriction Loxapine succinate Retail Pharmacy-specialist 594 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Lymecycline capsules 150 mg and capsules Antibiotic restriction 300mg Lypressin spray Macrogol ointment BP Macrogol polymers Magenta paint BPC 1973 Magnesium carbonate, heavy Magnesium carbonate, light In combination Magnesium carbonate mixture BPC Magnesium carbonate powder, compound BPC Magnesium hydroxide mixture BP Only on a prescription Magnesium hydroxide tablets Only when prescribed for a dialysis patient Magnesium oxide, light Magnesium sulphate, dried Magnesium sulphate paste BPC Magnesium trisilicate Magnesium trisilicate mixture BP Magnesium trisilicate powder, compound BP Maldison shampoo Malt extract BPC In combination Malt extract, liquid BPC 1954 In combination Malt extract with cod-liver oil BPC Malt extract with halibut-liver oil BPC 1973 Malt extract with vitamins Maprotiline hydrochloride tablets Retail PhaTrrlacy-specialist Mebendazole oral suspension Only on a prescription not exceeding 30 ml per person Mebendazole tablets Only on a prescription not exceeding 6 tablets per person Mebeverine hydrochloride tablets Retail PhaTrrlacy-specialist Mebhydrolin napadisylate only as tablets Only on a prescription Mecillinam injection Medroxyprogesterone acetate injection Medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets Medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets exceeding Retail PhaTrrlacy-specialist 10 mg strength Mefenamic acid capsules Only- (a) On a prescription for a female patient; and (b) If not more than 30 capsules per month are prescribed; and (c) If not more than 3 months supply is prescribed Mefruside tablets Megestrol acetate tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Mefphalan __ Retail PhaTrrlacy -specialist Menaphthone sodium bisulphate Menthol _ _ __ Menthol and benzoin inhalation BP Menthol and eucalyptus inhalation BP Menthol inhalation BNF 1963 Meprobamate Mercaptopurine Retail Pharmacy-specialist 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 595

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Mercurochrome Mesalazine enema and long-acting tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Mesterolone tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Metaraminol tartrate Metergoline tablets Metformin hydrochloride Methadone hydrochloride Methadone linctus BPC Methotrexate Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Methotrexate sodium Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Methotrimeprazine and its salts and esters Methoxsalen Retail Pharmacy-specialist Methydothiazide tablets Methyl hydroxybenzoate Methylcellulose In combination Methyldopa Methyldopa with hydrochlorothiazide tablets Methylphenidate hydrochloride Hospital Pharmacy Methylprednisolone and its salts and esters except Retail Pharmacy-specialist preparations elsewhere listed in this direction Methylprednisolone acetate injection, with or without lignocaine hydrochloride Methylprednisolone sodium succinate injection Retail Phamlacy-specialist Methysergide dimaleate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Metoclopramide suppositories Metoclopramide hydrochloride Metoclopramide hydrochloride with paracetamol tablets Metoprolol succinate long-acting tablets Metropolol tartrate Metoprolol tartrate long-acting tablets Metronidazole suppositories and tablets Metronidazole, benzoyl, oral suspension Metyrapone capsules Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Mexiletine hydrochloride capsules and long acting capsules Miconazole tincture and oral gel Miconazole nitrate lotion, powder, pessaries, skin cream and vaginal cream Midazolam tablets Month restriction Minocycline hydrochloride capsules 100 mg and Antibiotic restriction tablets 50 mg Misoprostol tablets (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist (b) Month restriction Moclobemide tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Mometasone furoate lotion Monostearin, self.emulsifYing BPC Morphine hydrochloride Morphine sulphate _ _ _ _ Morphine sulphate long-acting tablets Morphine tartrate injection Mouth-wash solution tablets BP Mucilaginous laxatives, dry (a) Only on a prescription (b) Approved type 596 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Mucopolysaccharide polysulphuric acid ester Not more than 14 g per prescription ointment Mupirocin ointment Only on a prescription, and when prescribed in a quantity not exceeding 15 g per prescription Mustine hydrochloride injection Retail Phannacy-specialist Nadolol tablets Nalidixic acid Naloxone hydrochloride injection Only on a practitioner's supply order Nandrolone decanoate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription Naphazoline hydrochloride Naphazoline nitrate Naproxen long-acting tablets 750 mg, oral liquid, suppositories, and tablets Naproxen long-acting tablets 1000 mg Naproxen sodium capsules and tablets Needles, non-disposable as approved by the (a) Approved type Director-General (b) Diabetic supplies Nefopam hydrochloride injection and tablets Neomycin and its salts as skin preparations Neomycin and its salts as eye drops Neomycin and its salts as eye ointment Neomycin sulphate injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient, and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Neomycin sulphate tablets (a) Hospital Phannacy (b) Antibiotic restriction Neomycin sulphate, with other phannaceutical Not more than 15 g or 15 ml per requirements, in extemporaneously prescription compounded preparations Neostigmine bromide __ Neostigmine methylsulphate Niclosamide tablets __ Nicotinamide Only on a prescription not exceeding a strength of 50 mg per dose Not more than 4 tablets per day Nicotinic acid Nicotinyl alcohol long-acting tablets of 150 mg Nifedipine capsules and tablets _ _ _ _ Nimorazole tablets Nitrazepam capsules and tablets Month restriction Nitrofurantoin __ Nitrofurazone cream and ointment Nizatidine capsules Month restnctlon unless on a prescription with a daily dose not exceeding 150 mg Norethisterone tablets 0_35 mg Norethisterone tablets 5 mg Norethisterone with mestranol tablets Norethisterone acetate Norethisterone acetate with ethinyloestradiol Norethisterone acetate with oestradiol tablets 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 597

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Norfloxacin tablets (a) Not more than six 400 mg tablets per prescription; or (b) Retail Pliarmacy-specialist_ Norgestrel with ethinyloestradiol Approved type Nortriptyline hydrochloride Nystatin as cream, dusting powder, ointment, oral Not sterile powder drops, oral suspension, paste, pastille, vaginal cream, vaginal pessaries and vaginal tablets Nystatin only proprietary tablets and capsules Maximum of 42 per prescription Nystatin oral powder Maximum of one pack per month Oestradiol implant tablets Oestradiol transdermal delivery system (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist (b) Only on a prescription and not exceeding 2 patches per week Oestradiol transdermal delivery systems with (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist norethisterone tablets (b) Only on a prescription and not exceeding 1 pack (10 patches) per month Oestradiol valerate tablets Oestradiol valerate tablets and oestradiol valerate with levonorgestrel tablets Oestradiol tablets and oestradiol with norethisterone acetate tablets Oestriol tablets, pessaries and vaginal cream Oestrogens, conjugated equine, tablets with medroxyprogesterone acetate tablets Oestradiol valerate tablets and oestradiol valerate with norgestrel tablets Oestrogens, co~ugated equine, tablets and vaginal cream Oestrogens, conjugated equine tablets with norgestrel tablets Ofloxacin tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Oily cream BPC or BP Oleic acid Olive oil (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner, or maternity hospital (b) Not more than 100 ml per prescription or bulk supply order Olsalazine sodium capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist Omeprazole capsules and injection (a) Retail Pharmacy-specialist (b) Month restriction Ondansetron tablets (a) Hospital Pharmacy-specialist (b) In a quantity not exceeding 3 tablets per prescription (c) Not more than 6 tablets per month Opiate squill linctus BP Not in combination Opiate squill linctus for infants BP Not in combination Opium tincture BP Orange spirit, compound BP Orange syrup BP Orange tincture BP 598 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Orciprenaline sulphate Orciprenaline sulphate aerosol inhaler Omidazole oral tablets with a pessary Ornidazole pessaries, suppositories and tablets Orphenadrine citrate tablets and injection Orphenadrine hydrochloride tablets Ortho-tolidine, compound, diagnostic sticks Approved type Oxazepam tablets Month restriction Oxprenolol hydrochloride Oxprenolol hydrochloride long-acting tablets Oxybutynin chloride syrup and tablets Oxycodone pectinate suppositories Oxymetazoline hydrochloride eye drops Oxymetazoline hydrochloride nasal preparations Oxymetholone Retail Pharmacy-specialist Oxytetracycline suppositories, extemporaneously prepared Oxytetracycline hydrochloride capsule 250 mg Antibiotic restriction Oxytetracycline hydrochloride topical Not more than 15 g per prescription preparations with or without other pharmaceutical requirements, when extemporaneously prepared Oxytocin Oxytocin with ergometrine maleate injection Pancreatic enzyme preparations (a) Approved type (b) Retail Pharmacy-specialist Pancreatic enzyme preparations Approved type Papaveretum Papaverine hydrochloride Paracetamol Except proprietary oral drops Paracetamol elixir for infants BP Paracetamol with codeine phosphate tablets Paraffin, hard Paraffin liquid Only on a prescription Paraffin liquid, light Paraffin liquid, light, as a bath oil Only on the prescription of a doctor Paraffin liquid and phenolphthalein emulsion BP Only on a prescription Paraffin liquid with paraffin white soft eye ointment Paraffin liquid with wool fat liquid eye ointment Paraffin, white, soft Paraffin, yellow, soft Paraffin ointment, BP 1963 Paraldehyde Peak flow meters (a) Approved type (b) OIlly on a wholesale supply order Peanut oil (a) Only on a prescription (b) Not more than 100 ml per prescription Penicillamine tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Pentaerythritol tetranitrate long-acting tablets and tablets Pentazocine and its salts as an injection and tablets Only on a practitioner's supply order Peppermint oil In combination Peppermint spirit 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 599

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Peppermint water and peppermint water, In combination concentrated Perhexiline maleate tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Pericyazine Perindopril 4 mg tablets Perphenazine Pethidine hydrochloride Phenelzine sulphate Pheniramine maleate long-acting tablets and oral Not in combination liquid Pheniramine para-aminosalicylate only as tablets Only on a prescription Phenobarbitone Phenobarbitone elixir BP Phenobarbitone sodium Phenol Phenol and hydrogen peroxide gargle NZF 1953 Phenol ear drops BPC Phenol gargle BPC Phenol glycerin BP Phenol, liquefied Phenoxybenzamine capsules __ Phenoxymethylpenicillin benzathine (a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Phenoxymethylpenicillin potassium salt (a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Phenoxymethylpenicillin hydrabamine (a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Phentolamine mesylate Phenylephrine hydrochloride Phenylephrine hydrochloride with zinc sulphate eye drops Phenylmercuric acetate Phenylmercuric nitrate Phenytoin tablets Phenytoin sodium Pholcodine Pholcodine linctus BP Not in combination Pholcodine linctus, strong BP Not in combination Phthalylsulphathiazole Antibiotic restriction Physostigmine salicylate Phytomenadione Pilocarpine eye inserts Retail Pharmacy-specialist Pilocarpine hydrochloride Pimozide tablets __ Retail Pharmacy-specialist Pindolol injection and tablets Piperonyl butoxide with pyrethrins I and II shampoo Pipothiazine palmitate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist Pirenzepine hydrochloride tablets (a) On a prescription for a daily dose not exceeding 50 mg; or (b) Month restriction Piroxicam only as capsules, injections, suppositories or tablets Pivampicillin and its salts (a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction 600 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Pivrnecillinam hydrochloride Antibiotic restriction Pizotifen Podophyllin compound paint BP Podophyllotoxin solution Only on a prescription and when prescribed in a quantity not exceeding 3.5 ml per prescription Podophyllum resin Polawax Poloxalkol as paediatric oral drops (a) Only on a prescription (b) For oral use only Polymyxin B sulphate For injection only Polymyxin B sulphate proprietary ear drops Polymyxin B stilphate WIth neomycin sulphate and gramicidin as proprietary eye drops Polymyxin B sulphate with neomycin sulphate as Not more than 15 g per prescription proprietary rwders Polynoxylin ge Polysorbate 80 BP Polyvinyl alcohol eye drops Polyvinyl alcohol with povidone eye drops Potassium acid phosphate .. Potassium bicarbonate .. Potassium bicarbonate with sodium acid Retail Pharmacy-specialist phosphate and sodium bicarbonate effervescent tablets Potassium chlorate Not lozenges Potassium chlorate and phenol gargle BPC Potassium chloride . . . . Not soluble tablets of 500 mg Potassium chloride long acting tablets Potassium citrate Potassium citrate mixture BP Potassium hydroxide Potassium iodide Potassium iodide ammoniated mixture BPC 1973 Potassium permanganate .. Potassium with chloride, effervescent tablets Povidone iodine alcoholic skin preparation Only when prescribed in a quantity not exceeding 500 ml per month for a dialysis patient Povidone iodine antiseptic solution Only when prescribed in a quantity not exceeding 500 ml per month for a dialysis patient Povidone iodine ointment Only on a prescription and not exceeding 100 g per prescription Prazosin hydrochloride tablets Prednisolone tablets Prednisolone and its salts and esters alone or in Retail Pharmacy-specialist combination with other pharmaceutical re'l.uirements as proprietary eye preparations Prednisolone acetate with neomycin sulphate and Retail Pharmacy-specialist polymyxin B sulphate proprietary eye drops Prednisolone sodium phosphate for use as an enema Prednisolone sodium phosphate suppositories Prednisone tablets . . . . 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 601

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Pregnancy tests (a) Approved type (b) OIlly on a wholesale supply order Primaquine phosphate Primidone Probenecid Probucol tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Procainamide hydrochloride Procainamide hydrochloride long-acting tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Procaine penicillin Procarbazine hydrochloride Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Prochlorperazine, its salts and esters Procyclidine hydrochloride Progesterone Proguanil hydrochloride tablets Promethazine hydrochloride injection Promethazine hydrochloride oral liquid and Not in combination tablets Promethazine theoclate Propafenone hydrochloride tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Propamidine isethionate ophthalmic solution Propantheline bromide tablets Propranolol hydrochloride injection and long- acting capsules, long-acting tablets and tablets Propyl hydroxybenzoate Propylthiouracil Protamine sulphate injection Protriptyline hydrochloride tablets Pseudoephedrine hydrochloride oral liquid and Not in combination tablets Pumilio pine oil Pyrantel embonate Pyrazinamide Retail Pharmacy-specialist Pyridostigmine bromide Pyridoxine hydrochloride injection Not exceeding 50 mg per 2 ml each Pyridoxine hydrochloride Only on a prescription not exceeding a strength of 100 mg per dose Pyrimethamine with sulphadoxine tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Q}tinalbarbitone sodium __ Month restriction Quinapril tablets Quinidine bisulphate long acting capsules and long-acting tablets Quinidine sulphate Quinine sulphate Ranitidine hydrochloride capsules and tablets (a) Only on a prescription with a daily dose not exceeding 150 mg; or (b) Month restriction (c) Not as an effervescent or dispersible tablet or capsule Ranitidine hydrochloride injection Raspberry syrup In combination Resorcinol Resorcinol and sulphur paste BPC Riboflavine Only on a prescription not exceeding a strength of 10 mg per dose Rifampicin Retail Pharmacy-specialist 602 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Rolitetracycline and its nitrate, with or without lignocaine hydrochloride, for injection Rose water, and rose water concentrated In combination Rosemary oil In combination Roxithromycin Antibiotic restriction Saccharin and saccharin sodium In combination Salbutamol aerosol inhaler Salbutamol sulphate as aerosol inhaler, injectIOn, long·acting tablets, nebulising solution in single dose units, oral liquid, powder for oral inhalation, respirator solution and tablets Salicylic acid Salicylic acid and sulphur ointment BPC Salicylic acid collodion BP Salicylic acid lotion BP Salicylic acid ointment BP Salicylic acid and dithranol paste, strong Salicylic acid and dithranol paste, weak Salicylic acid and sulphur cream BP Saliva substitutes in any form Only on a prescnptlon when extemporaneously compounded Selegiline hydrochloride tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Selegiline mixture Retail Pharmacy·specialist Senna, standardised tablets Only on a prescription Silver nitrate Silver nitrate, toughened BP Silver sulphadiazine with chlorhexidine Only on a practitioner's supply order digluconate cream Simple linctus BP Not in combination Simple linctus for infants BP Not in combination Simple eye ointment BP Simple ointment BP Simple syrup In combination Soap, soft In combination Soap solution, compound NZF 1953 Soap spirit, industrial In combination SodIUm acid phosphate with sodium phosphate Only on a prescription enema Sodium alginate with sodium bicarbonate oral mixture Sodium aurothiomalate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Sodium bicarbonate Sodium bicarbonate ear drops BP .. Sodium bicarbonate mixture for infants BPC 1973 Sodium bicarbonate tablets, compound BP Sodium calciumedetate Sodium carboxymethycellulose In combination Sodium carboxymethycellulose with pectin and gelatin paste and powder Sodium chloride .. Sodium chloride injection Only in quantities of 50 rnl or less per unit Sodium chloride mixture, compound BPC Sodium citrate . . . . Sodium citrate mixture BPC 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 603

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Sodium citrate with sodium lauryl sulphoacetate Only on a prescription and sorbitol enema Sodium citro-tartrate effervescent granules __ Sodium cromoglycate aerosol inhaler for oral use, capsules for oral inhalation, capsules for nasal inhalation, nebuliser solution, nasal drops and nasal spray Sodium cromoglycate capsules Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Sodium cromoglycate eye drops and eye ointment Hospital Pharmacy Sodium cromoglycate nebuliser solution, nasal spray and nasal drops Sodium cyclamate In combination Sodium fluoride Sodium hydroxide Sodium hypochlorite solution Only if- (a) Of a type approved by the Director­ General for the purposes of this direction; and (b) Prescribed for renal dialysis in the home of the patient concerned Sodium lauryl sulphate Sodium metabisulphite Sodium nitroprusside, buffered, diagnostic strips (a) Not available on a bulk supply order (b) Approved type Sodium nitroprusside with aminoacetic acid (a) Not available on a bulk supply order diagnostic tablets (b) Approved type Sodium polystyrene sulphonate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Sodium tetradecyl sulphate injection Sodium thiosulphate Sodium valproate Sorbitan derivatives Sotalol hydrochloride injection and tablets Soyabean oil (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) Not more than 100 ml per prescription Spectinomycin hydrochloride Retail Pharmacy-specialist Spiramycin Spirit, bay, compound, industrial In combination Spironolactone tablets Starch In combination Stearic acid Stilboestrol Stilboestrol diphosphate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Streptokinase and streptodornase Not oral tablets Sucralfate tablets (a) Only on the prescription of a practitioner (b) Month restriction Sugar In combination Sulindac tablets Sulphacetamide sodium Sulphasalazine enema Retail Pharmacy-specialist Sulphasalazine suppositories and tablets Sulphinpyrazone __ Sulphur lotion, compound BPC 604 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Sulphur, precipitated Sulphur, sublime ______Sulphur with phenol and titanium dioxide cream Sulphurated potash Sulthiame Sumatriptan injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy-specialist; and (b) Not more than 6 per prescription; and (c) Not more than 2 per dispensing Sunscreen preparations, proprietary (a) Approved type (b) Retail Pharmacy-specialist Syringes, non-disposable (a) Approved type (b) Diabetic supplies Syringes, plastic for insulin, with attached needle (a) A(>proved type (b) DIabetic syringes Talc, purified __ Talc dusting powder BP Tamoxifen citrate __ Tar Tar, compound, bath oils (a) Approved type (b) 011ly on the prescription of a doctor Temazepam capsules Month restriction Tenoxicam injection, suppositories and tablets Terazosin hydrochloride tablets __ Terbutaline sulphate aerosol inhaler, injection, oral liquid, powder for oral inhalation, respiratory so[ution, tablets and long-acting tablets Terfenadine oral liquid and tablets Not in combination Testosterone cypionate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription Testosterone enanthate injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription Testosterone enanthate ointment Retail Pharmacy-specialist Testosterone, mixed esters, for injection Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription Testosterone propionate ointment Retail Pharmacy-specialist Testosterone undecanoate capsules Retail Pharmacy-specialist prescription Tetrabenazine Tetrabromophenol blue diagnostic sticks Approved type Tetracosactrin injection and long-acting injection Tetracycline hydrochloride topical preparations Not more than 15 g per prescription with or without other pharmaceutical requirements when extemporaneously prepared Tetracycline suppositories, extemporaneously prepared Tetracycline hydrochloride capsules 250 mg and Antibiotic restriction capsules 500 mg Tetracycline hydrochloride eye ointment Tetracycline hydrochloride tablets 250 mg and Antibiotic restriction tablets 500 mg Tetracycline hydrochloride topical preparations with or without other pharmaceutical requirements when extemporaneously prepared Tetracycline hydrochloride, phosphate buffered, Antibiotic restriction capsules 250 mg 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 605

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Theobroma oil Theophylline ...... Theophylline long.acting capsules and long.acting tablets Thiamine hydrochloride Only on a prescription not exceeding a strength of 50 mg per dose Thiethylperazine maleate Thioguanine tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Thiomersal Thioridazine hydrochloride Thioridazine hydrochloride long acting tablets Thiotepa Retail Pharmacy-specialist Thiothixene tablets 2 mg and 10 mg Thiothixene oral solution Retail Pharmacy-specialist Thiothixene hydrochloride injection Thymol Thymol glycerin, compound BP Thyroxine sodium Tiaprofenic acid tablets and long·acting capsules Tiemonium iodide injection and tablets Timolol maleate eye drops Retail Pharmacy-specialist Timolol maleate injection and tablets Tinidazole tablets Tioconazole skin cream, skin lotion, vaginal ointment and pessaries Titanium dioxide Titanium dioxide paste BP .. Tobramycin eye arops and eye ointment Retail Pharmacy-specialist Tobramycin sulphate injection (a) Hospital Pharmacy (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient, and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Tocainide hydrochloride injection and tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Tolazamide tablets Tolbutamide Tolciclate cream, lotion and powder Tolnaftate cream, powder and solution Tragacanth In combination Tragacanth, powder, compound BP In combination Tragacanth mucilage BPC 1973 In combination Tranexamic acid tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Tranylcypromine sulphate Tretinoin Not impregnated swabs Triacetyloleandomycin (a) Not in any topical application (b) Antibiotic restriction Triamcinolone tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Triamcinolone acetonide as injection, proprietary cream and ointment Triamcinolone acetonide with nystatin and lignocaine hydrochloride ointment and suppositories Triamcinolone acetonide with nystatin, neomycin Not more than 15 g per prescription sulphate and gramicidin proprietary skin cream and proprietary skin ointment 606 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Triamcinolone acetonide with nystatin, neomycin sulphate and gramicidin proprietary ear drops Triamcinolone hexacetonide injection Triamterene with hrdrochlorothiazide Triazolam tablets 0 0.125 mg and 0.25 mg Month restriction Trichloroacetic acid Trichloroethylene (a) Not exceeding 25 ml (b) Not on a practitioner's supply order or a Dill supply order Triethanolamine Trifluoperazine hydrochloride mjection, tablets, long acting capsules and syrup Trimeprazine tartrate oral liquid and tablets Not in combination Trimethoprim tablets Antibiotic restriction Trimipramine maleate Trioxsalen tablets Retail Pharmacy-specialist Tripotassium dicitratobismuthate, tablets Month restriction Triprolidine hydrochloride long.acting tablets and Not in combination oralli<{uid Tropicanude eye drops Tyloxapol eye drops Urea Not in any proprietary preparation unJess it is separately specified in this Part of the Schedule Urea 10 percent proprietary cream Vancomycin hydrochloride (a) Hospital Pharmacy; and (b) Only if prescribed for a dialysis patient or a cystic fibrosis patient or in the treatment of pseudomembranous colitis, and the prescription is endorsed accordingly Vanillin In combination Vasopressin and its salts and esters as an injection Verapamil hydrochloride long.acting capsules, long·acting tablets, injection and tablets Vidarabine eye ointment . . . . Retail Pharmacy-specialist Vinblastine sulphate Retail Pharmacy-specialist Vincristine sulphate . . . . Retail Pharmacy-specialist Vitamin A capsules of 50,000 i.u. strength Vitamin A tablets of 50,000 i.u. strength Vitamin A acetate tablets Vitamin A palmitate extemporaneously prepared Retail Pharmacy-specialist ear drops Vitamin A and D capsules BPC Vitamins A, D, and C solution Vitamin B complex injection (a) Approved type (b) OIlly on a bUlk supply order Vitamin B tablets, compound BPC Vitamin B tablets, compound, strong BPC Vitamins tablets (BPC capsule strength) Warfarin sodium 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 607

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Water for injections (a) In quantities of 50 ml or less per unit, only when prescribed on the same prescription or practitioner's supply order as injections mentioned in this direction and requiring a solvent or diluent, or on a bulk supply order (b) When used in the extemporaneous compounding of eye drops wild cherry syrup BP Wool alcohols BP Wool alcohols ointment BP Wool fat BP Wool fat, hydrous BP Wool fat, hydrous, with mineral oil bath oil and Only on the prescription of a doctor lotion Wool fat ointment, hydrous BPC Xamoterol fumarate tablets Hospital Pharmacy-specialist Xylometazoline hydrochloride nasal preparations Zinc oxide Zinc oxide and peru balsam, with or without hydrocortisone, ointment and suppositories Zinc oxide, colloidal Zinc and castor oil ointment BP Zinc and coal tar paste BP Zinc and ichthammol cream BP Zinc and salicyclic acid paste BP Zinc cream BP Zinc ointment BP Zinc paste, compound BP .. Zinc, starch, and talc dusting powder BPC Zinc sulphate Zinc sulphate and adrenaline eye drops, BP Zopiclone tablets Month restriction 608 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

Cl. 32 SECOND SCHEDULE

REQ.UIREMENTS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED ON A PRACTITIONER'S SUPPLY ORDER

Maximum QJ.tantity Requirement Allowed

Adrenaline injection 5 Aminophylline injection .. 5 Amoxycillin trihydrate capsules 250 mg 30 Amoxycillin trihydrate granules for oral liquid 125 mg per 5 ml 100 ml 2 Amoxycillin sodium injection 5 Amoxycillin 125 mg with potassium clavulanate 31.25 mg per 5 mI granules for oral liquid 100 ml 2 Amoxycillin 500 mg with potassium clavulanate 125 mg tablets 30 Atropine sulphate injection 5 Benzathine penicillin injection 5 Benztropine mesylate injection 1 mg per ml 2 ml 5 Benzylpenicillin sodium injection .. 5 Betamethasone sodium phosphate tablets 30 Chlorpromazine hydrochloride injection 5 Chlorpromazine tablets 30 Clotrimazole pessaries 100 mg 12 Contraceptives, condoms with or without a spermicidal agent 72 Contraceptives, diaphragms 1 of each size Contraceptives, spermicidal agent . . . . 1 pack Co-trimoxazole oral liquid 240 mg per 5 ml 100 ml 2 Co-trimoxazole tablets 480 mg 30 Desogestrel with ethinyloestradiol tablets 63 or 84 Dextrose injection 5 Diazepam injection 5 Diazepam rectal tubes 5 mg 5 Diclofenac sodium injection 5 Dicyclomine hydrochloride tablets 10 mg 30 Digoxin injection 5 Digoxin tablets 30 Doxycycline hydrochloride tablets or capsules 30 Electrolyte powder for oral solution in sachets 10 Ergometrine maleate injection . . . . 5 Erythromycin or one of its salts or esters as capsules or tablets 200 mg or 250 mg 30 Erythromycin estolate oral liquid 125 mg per 5 ml or erythromycin ethylsuccinate 200 mg per 5 ml 100 ml 2 Ethinyloestradiol with ethynodiol acetate tablets 63 Ethinyloestradiol with gestodene tablets 63 or 84 Ethinyloestradiol with levonorgestrel tablets 63 or 84 Ethinyloestradiol with norethisterone tablets 63 or 84 Ethinyloestradiol with norgestrel tablets 63 Ethynodiol diacetate tablets __ 84 Ethynodiol diacetate with mestranol tablets 63 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 609

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Maximum Q..uantity Requirement Allowed

Flucloxacillin sodium capsules 250 mg 30 Flucloxacillin sodium injection 5 Flupenthixol decanoate injection 5 Fluphenazine decanoate injection 5 Frusemide injection 5 Glucagon hydrochloride injection 5 Glyceryl trinitrate tablets 100 Haloperidol decanoate injection 5 Haloperidol tablets 30 Hydrocortisone sodium succinate injection 5 Hyoscine N butylbromide injection 20 mg 1 ml 6 Ipratropium bromide nebuliser solution 2ml 40 Levonorgestrel tablets .. 84 Lignocaine hydrochloride injection 5 Loperamide hydrochloride capsules 2 mg 30 Medroxyprogesterone acetate 150 mg 1 ml 5 Mestranol with norethisterone tablets .. 63 or 84 Metoclopramide hydrochloride injection 5 Metronidazole tablets 200 mg 30 Morphine sulphate injection .. 5 Naloxone hydrochloride injection 5 Nefopam hydrochloride injection 5 Nefopam hydrochloride tablets 30 Nifedipine capsules 10 mg .. 30 Noretrusterone tablets 0.35 mg 84 Norethisterone tablets 5 mg 30 Oxytocin injection 5 Oxytocin with ergometrine maleate injection 5 Paracetamol oral liquid 120 mg per 5 ml 100 ml 2 Paracetamol tablets ...... 30 Pentazocine hydrochloride tablets 30 Pentazocine lactate injection 5 Pethidine hydrochloride injection 5 Phenoxymethylpenicillin, potassium tablets 250 mg 30 Phenoxymethylpenicillin benzathine oral liquid 125 mg per 5 ml 100 ml 2 Phenytoin sodium injection 5 Phytomenadione injection 5 Pipothiazine palmitate injection 5 Prednisone tablets 5 mg 30 Probenecid tablets 500 mg 30 Procaine penicillin injection 5 Prochlorperazine maleate tablets 5 mg 30 Prochlorperazine mesylate injection 5 Promethazine hydrochloride injection . . . . 5 Salbutamol or salbutamol sulphate aerosol inhaler 5

Con Reg. A-2I 610 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Maximum Quantity Requirement Allowed

Salbutamol sulphate injection 0.5 mg 1 ml 5 Salbutamol sulphate nebuliser solution 20 ml 1 Salbutamol sulphate nebuliser solution 2.5 ml 20 Silver sulphadiazine with chlorhexidine digluconate cream 500g Terbutaline sulphate oral liquid 100 ml 2 Tetracycline hydrochloride capsules or tablets 250mg 30 Triamcinolone acetonide inject 40 mg 1 ml 5 Triamcinolone acetonide with nystatin, neomycin sulphate and gramicidin ear drops 2 Trimethoprim 300 mg tablets 30 Verapamil hydrochloride injection 5 Water for injections . . 5

Con Reg. A-21* 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 611

THIRD SCHEDULE Cl. 32 (I) (b) (i) REMOTE AREAS FOR PRACTITIONER'S SUPPLY ORDERS Ward District Northern Far North Whangaroa Far North Kerikeri Far North Kawakawa Far North Kaikohe Far North Hokianga Far North Hikurangi Whangarei Ruawai Kaipara Otamatea Kaipara Wellsford Rodney Warkwork Rodney Helensville Rodney Kumeu Rodney Coromandel·Colville Thames Coromandel Mercury Bay Thames Coromandel Tairua Thames Coromandel Whangamata Thames Coromandel Plains Hauraki Paeroa Hauraki Waihi Hauraki Te Aroha Matamata Piako Morrinsville Matamata Piako Matamata Matamata Piako Waihi Beach Western Bay of Plenty Katikati Western Bay of Plenty Te Puke Bay of Plenty Galatea Whakatane Waimana Whakatane Coast Opotiki Waioeka Otara Opotiki Matakoa Gisborne Uawa Gisborne Waiapu Gisborne Waikohu Gisborne Maungakawa Waikato Whangane Waikato Raglan Waikato Te Awamutu Waipa Kawhia North Otorohanga Otorohanga Otorohanga Mangaokewa Waitomo Paemako Waitomo Putaruru South Waikato Pouakani Taupo Tongariro Taupo Taumarunui Ruapehu Waimarino Ruapehu Waiouru Ruapehu Clifton New Plymouth Inglewood New Plymouth 612 Drug Tariff 1993 1993/115

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Ward District Okato New Plymouth Western Stratford Egmont Plains South Taranaki Eltham South Taranaki Patea South Taranaki Taihape Rangitikei Hunterville Rangitikei Tuhara·Frasertown Wairoa Wairoa Wairoa Tikokino Central Hawkes Bay Waipawa Central Hawkes Bay Waipukurau Central Hawkes Bay Dannevirke Tararua Pahiatua Tararua Tararua Carterton Greytown South Wairarapa Featherston South Wairarapa Martinborough South Wairarapa Sounds Marlborough Awatere Marlborough Kaikoura Kaikoura Golden Bay Tasman Moutere Tasman Waimea Tasman Lakes Tasman Inangahua Buller Seddon Buller Moana Grey Ahaura Grey Amuri Hurunui Cheviot Hurunui Hurunui Hurunui Amberley Hurunui Hanmer Springs Hurunui Oxford .. Waimakariri Darfield Selwyn Lincoln·Prebbleton Selwyn Leeston Selwyn Akaroa Banks Peninsula Northern Westland Southern Westland Central Westland Mt Hutt Ashburton Geraldine Timaru Temuka Timaru Fairlie McKenzie Twizel McKenzie Deep Creek Waimate Ahuriri Waitaki 1993/115 Drug Tariff 1993 613

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Ward District Waihemo Waitaki Wanaka Queenstown Lakes Cromwell Central Otago Maniototo Central Otago Alexandra Central Otago Roxburgh Central Otago Lawrence·Tuapeka Clutha Bruce Clutha Catlins Clutha Mataura Gore Te Anau Southland Five Rivers Southland Otautau Southland Winton Southland Tuatapere Southland Riverton Southland Toetoes Southland Stewart Island Southland Bluff Invercargill

Given at Wellington this 27th day of April 1993.

M. WILLIAMSON, Minister of Health.

EXPLANATORY NOTE This note is not part of the direction, but is intended to indicate its general effect. This direction, which comes into force on 1 May 1993, specifies the medicines, drugs, appliances, and things that may be supplied, wholly or partly at the cost of the Crown, by pharmacists and others who have contracted to supply them under the Social Security (Pharmaceutical Benefits) Regulations 1965. It also prescribes the terms and conditions of supply, the procedure for the lodging and payment of claims by contractors, and the rules for fixing the prices payable to contractors.

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989. Date of notification in Gazette: 29 April 1993. This direction is administered in the Department of Health.