19 - Medicine regulations

Question 1

Role of Medsafe and Pharmac

Answer 1

Medsafe - (medicines or medical devices that have a therapeutic purpose)
Safety of drugs before, during and after they are made registered
-controls what is available and how
-classification of medications
-education and information

Pharmac - Decides what medicines to fund (subsity of mediciens in hospitals) , promotes best use of medicines
-sometimes government will fund for certain people - if they have something wrong - GP can look into this

Question 2

What doesnt medsafe regulate?

Answer 2

dietary supplements, herbal medicines ect. e.g st johns wart or folic acid

Question 3

Natural therapy sales

Answer 3

-can sell but cannot advertise or put a theraputic claim on them

Question 4

How does medsafe regulate?

Answer 4

decides what medicines we can buy or not, what are prescriebd or sold at sueprmakret or pharmacy

Question 5

How to go about unapproved medicines

Answer 5

If want to prescibe a medicine that is not on list, then can email medsafe and inform patient

Question 6

What do if suspect an adverse drug reaction

Answer 6

CARM - center for adverse reactions monitoring

• report to this
• record patientt details and medicine details, fill out form and retern

-then carm will use this data to see if reactions are consistant with evidence - undertake risk-benefit assessments to see if action is required (removal of medicine if causing harm)