GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is refusing to pay invoices from community pharmacists for the work done in managing a patient level medicine recall in 2010 - even after GSK lost their case in the district court. On 26 September 2011, in the Manukau District Court, Judge Wiltens found that a reasonable and proper price should have been paid to Ian Johnson Pharmacy Ltd (IJPL) for services rendered during the Marevan recall on 28 January 2010. GSK had asked every community pharmacy to contact all patients who had Marevan (warfarin) 3mg dispensed since 23 November 2009. The legal action taken by IJPL was supported by the Pharmacy Guild of New Zealand (the Guild).
