19 MARCH 2009 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 35 943

Fluorides; for internal use in medicines containing 0.5 milligrams or less per dose unit; except in parenteral nutrition replacement preparations; for external use in liquid form in medicines containing 1000 milligrams or less per litre or per kilogram and when sold in packs approved by the Minister or the Director-General for distribution as pharmacy-only medicines, except in medicines containing 220 milligrams or less per litre or per kilogram and in packs containing not more than 120 milligrams of total fluoride which have been approved by the Minister or the Director-General for distribution as general sale medicines; except when used in practice by a registered dental therapist; except in medicines containing 15 milligrams or less per litre or per kilogram

Fluorides; for external use in liquid form in medicines containing 220 milligrams or less per litre or per kilogram and in packs containing not more than 120 milligrams of total fluoride which have been approved by the Minister or the Director-General for distribution as general sale medicines; for external use in non-liquid form in medicines containing 1500 milligrams or less per litre or per kilogram and, when containing more than 1000 milligrams per litre or per kilogram, sold in packs approved by the Minister or the Director-General for distribution as general sale medicines; in medicines containing 15 milligrams or less per litre or per kilogram; in parenteral nutrition replacement preparations

Ketotifen; for ophthalmic use in medicines containing 0.025% or less except when sold in practice by a registered optometrist

Medicines for General Sale

Please note that the following medicines are no longer classified as prescription medicines, restricted medicines or pharmacy-only medicines. As such, they are now available for general sale.

Albumin; human

Aloes for internal use; when obtained solely from the mucilaginous gel of the leaf

Antithrombin

Blood clotting factors

Blood corpuscles

Blood, whole

Factor VIII inhibitor bypassing fraction

Fibrinogen

Plasma

Plasma protein fraction

Plasmin

Plasminogen activator

Platelets

Thrombin

Regulation 20 of the Medicines Regulations 1984 requires that all medicines sold without a practitioner’s prescription must include a consumer information panel on the label. Further, all material changes to a medicine (including changes to labelling), must be notified to the Director-General of Health in accordance with section 24 of the Medicines Act 1981.

Dated this 16th day of March 2009.

ANTHONY HILL, Deputy Director-General, Sector Accountability and Funding Directorate, Ministry of Health.

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Social Security Act 1964

Maximum Contribution Applying in Each Territorial Local Authority Region From 1 April 2009

Under section 152 of the Social Security Act 1964, the Director-General of Health is required to notify the maximum contribution that applies in each region.

The maximum contribution is the maximum weekly amount (inclusive of GST) that a resident assessed as requiring long-term residential care (through a needs assessment and services coordination agency) is required to pay for contracted care services provided to them in the region in which their rest home or continuing care hospital is located.

Contracted care services are services provided to needs assessed people in a rest home or continuing care hospital that has a contract with a district health board.

The services provided are those necessary to meet the person’s assessed care needs in accordance with the agreement between the district health board and the residential care provider.

This agreement covers residents who are:

• eligible for the residential care subsidy (under section 141 of the Act); or

• entitled to have funding paid to cover the difference between the maximum contribution and the cost of contracted care services provided to them (under section 140 of the Act).

The maximum contribution is the same for all residents regardless of the type of contracted care services they receive.

The maximum contribution set by this New Zealand Gazette notice applies from 1 April 2009 and replaces the previous maximum contribution notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 19 June 2008, No. 100, page 2703.

It is equivalent to the most recent, nationally agreed rest home contract price applying to residential care facilities in each territorial local authority region.

The maximum contribution will change only when a new maximum contribution is gazetted.

New maximum contributions will reflect changes to rest home contract prices that usually result from the annual review of the residential care contract between district health boards and residential care providers.