21 JUNE 2012

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 69

Medicines Act 1981

Consent to the Distribution of New Medicines

Pursuant to section 20 of the Medicines Act 1981, the Minister of Health hereby consents to the distribution in New Zealand of the new medicines set out in the Schedule hereto:

Schedule

Product: Floair HFA Inhaler
Active Ingredient: Fluticasone propionate 0.05mg
Dosage Form: Aerosol inhaler, metered dose
New Zealand Sponsor: REX Medical Limited
Manufacturer: Cipla Limited, Goa, India

Product: Floair HFA Inhaler
Active Ingredient: Fluticasone propionate 0.125mg
Dosage Form: Aerosol inhaler, metered dose
New Zealand Sponsor: REX Medical Limited
Manufacturer: Cipla Limited, Goa, India

Product: Floair HFA Inhaler
Active Ingredient: Fluticasone propionate 0.25mg
Dosage Form: Aerosol inhaler, metered dose
New Zealand Sponsor: REX Medical Limited
Manufacturer: Cipla Limited, Goa, India

Dated this 14th day of June 2012

DEBORAH KENT, Acting Chief Medical Officer, Clinical Leadership, Protection and Regulation Business Unit, Ministry of Health (pursuant to delegation given by the Minister of Health on 6 July 2001).

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Social Security Act 1964

Maximum Contribution Applying in Each Territorial Local Authority Region From 1 July 2012

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 for long-term aged residential care.

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 service 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 July 2012 and replaces the previous maximum contribution notice published in the New Zealand Gazette, 2 June 2011, No. 76, page 1796.

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.