Pursuant to section 106(1) of the Medicines Act
1981, I, Dr Don Mackie, Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Leadership, Protection and Regulation Business Unit, Ministry of Health, acting under delegated authority,
hereby declare that the medicines listed in Schedule 1 to
this notice are classified as prescription medicines.
Every reference to a medicine in this notice applies whether the medicine is synthetic in origin or is from biological or mineral sources.
Unless specific reference is made otherwise, every reference applies also to medicines that are:
(a) preparations and admixtures containing any proportion of any substance listed in the notice.
(b) salts and esters of any substance listed in the notice.
(c) preparations or extracts of biological materials listed in the notice.
(d) salts or oxides of elements listed in the notice.
Unless specific reference is made otherwise, every reference to a medicine applies:
(i) if the medicine is in an injection or eye preparation, to any concentration of that medicine; and
(ii) if the medicine is not in an injection or eye preparation, only if the concentration of the medicine is greater than 10 milligrams per litre or per kilogram.
Where any reference is modified by a statement of the strength of the medicine, the strength is calculated using
the free acid, base, alcohol or element unless specifically stated otherwise.
Schedule 1
Prescription Medicines
Alogliptin
Crofelemer
Dimethyl fumarate
Fidaxomicin
Glycopyrronium
Ivacaftor
Micafungin
Olodaterol
Pasireotide
Pasireotide diaspartate
Retapamulin
Retigabine
Ridaforolimus
Vismodegib
Dated this 27th day of August 2013.
DR DON MACKIE, Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Leadership, Protection and Regulation Business Unit, Ministry of Health.