Hopefully a short rant this time!

What is Medsafe?

Medsafe is New Zealand’s medication regulatory authority. Except in a few cases all the medications on sale in New Zealand, and certainly any you see on shelves or advertised, have Medsafe approval.

This is a very important role - Medsafe ensures medicines meet the quality and efficacy the manufacturers claim, is safe to use in the way the manufacturer has specified, has appropriate guidance for patients and prescribers, and has a secure distribution network.

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With the shortage of Estradot I’ve seen quite a few people wondering what all the different ways medication is described in New Zealand actually mean. What is an unapproved medication? What is a special authority? Hopefully I’ll answer that!

This isn’t an exhaustive list, just the ones you’re likely to see.

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Yep that’s right! You can now comment and read the posts on mobile! Technology! And still no Javascript!

For those interested the code is on github. I might write some instructions on how to build it, because you need to build the migrations first since the SQL library checks the SQL at compile time.

And yes the resulting binary is 5MB on my x64 machine, but no dependencies! It still runs pretty fast as well.

Now back to writing posts about things other than the blog…

Well it looks like I finally have my new blog working! Now I just have to write on it.

Because, well, I’m me, it’s a static site generator written in Rust. The admin console runs as a CGI, because why not?

I’ll do more of a write up later I’m sure, but for now I need to make it handle image uploads. And set up backups, I need those.