Fewer pharmacy visits are on the horizon for New Zealanders needing inhalers and IUDs from next month

Pharmac's announced people can collect three-month supplies of some inhalers for budesonide with eformoterol all at once.

Meanwhile, doctors and nurses will be able to provide Mirena and Jaydess IUD contraceptives at insertion appointments - without patients needing to collect them from pharmacies.

Associate Health Minister David Seymour says he's told Pharmac its job is to make people's lives easier.

Seymour says there's no cost to making it easier to store IUDs at doctors, or provide three-month supplies of inhalers instead of one.