Revised: 24 July 2025
Information for Healthcare Professionals
This section provides information useful to healthcare professionals.
Medsafe Advice
| Date | Type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 19/8/2025 | Notices | Medsafe performance statistics 2024/2025 |
| 13/8/2025 | Consultation | Clozapine: Proposed changes to blood monitoring and prescribing requirements - consultation questions for healthcare professionals - closes 8 October 2025 |
| 31/7/2025 | Committees | Medicines Classification Committee - Dates and Deadlines |
| 31/7/2025 | Monitoring Communication | Update - Anti-CD20 monoclonal antibodies (rituximab, ocrelizumab, obinutuzumab, ofatumumab) and the possible risk of pyoderma gangrenosum |
| 24/7/2025 | Notices | Guidelines and Application Form for Approval to Prescribe Psychedelics |
| 23/7/2025 | Consultation | Topical corticosteroids: Proposal for the package labelling to state their potency - Consultation now closes on 13 August 2025 |
| 22/7/2025 | Alert Communication | Warning: advertisements claiming Medsafe approval or bearing the Medsafe logo are scams |
| 16/7/2025 | Committees | Comments on agenda items for the 74th meeting of the Medicines Classification Committee |
If you have an enquiry that is not answered by the information on the web site please contact us at askmedsafe@health.govt.nz.
