Pharmaceutical Schedule

The New Zealand Pharmaceutical Schedule (the "Schedule") is a list of the approximately 2000 prescription medicines and therapeutic products subsidised by the Government. The Schedule is published three times a year and updated monthly on this website.

The printed Schedule is distributed to about 13,000 medical practitioners, pharmacists, and other health professionals, and can also be requested by other users, including pharmaceutical suppliers and the general public.

Click here to search through the schedule. You can search by partial or exact chemical or brand name.

• Pharmaceutical Schedule:
  • Pharmaceutical Schedule - effective 1 April 2012 (242 pages, 1459 KB)
  
  
• Update:
  • Schedule Update - effective 1 June 2012 (45 pages, 1056 KB)
  
  
• Section H:
  • Section H - effective 1 March 2012 (82 pages, 999 KB)
  
  
• Schedule Dispatch:
  • 2012-06 Schedule Dispatch (3 pages, 107 KB)
  
  
• Clinicians Newsletter:
  • 2012-05 Clinicians Newsletter (3 pages, 536 KB)
  
  
• Close Control Notifications:
  • Proposed changes to the Pharmaceutical Schedule Rules; Closing Date: Closed; Contact: Rachel Mackay (7 pages, 182 KB)
  
  
• Tender Notification:
  • 2012-05 Tender Notification Fax (Test) (1 page, 0 KB)
  
  
• Pharmacy Brand Switch Payments:
  • Pharmacy Claiming BrandSwitch (1 page, 169 KB)
  
  

Click here to link to the RSS feed and see all the schedule publications.

The Schedule database is also available to software developers. Click here or contact John Geering for more details.

Refer to our Frequently Asked Questions if you have any questions about medicine subsidies.

To notify PHARMAC of any product changes, please use the Notification of Product Changes (2 pages, 130 KB)