Pharmacist prescribers are experienced pharmacists who work in patient-focused roles in collaborative healthcare teams to optimise medicines use.
- In primary care, Pharmacist Prescribers assess patients and then prescribe medicines. Areas of prescribing practice include renal, diabetes, hypertension, gout and management of cardiovascular risk.
- In hospitals, pharmacists are working as members of the clinical team who can now prescribe. Areas of prescribing practice include renal, emergency admission, surgical preadmission, parenteral nutrition, paediatrics and mental health.

The role pharmacists can play in patient care is rapidly expanding and New Zealand is at the forefront of this. Legislation has now been passed that allows pharmacists to prescribe, and the numbers of New Zealand pharmacists registered to prescribe is steadily growing.
This innovation is in line with the Government’s commitment to support health practitioners to work to their full capacity and provide better, timely, more convenient access to services for patients.

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