[Discussion] can we stop arguing about TGA until somebody posts a number
The title is the whole question — can we stop arguing about TGA until somebody posts a number — but here is why I am asking. Registration by the therapeutic goods regulator establishes that a product may be supplied. Subsidy listing is a separate decision about public funding, with its own criteria and its own…
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
compounded supply arrangements changed and the threads have not caught up
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
Adding the quickest step — ask the pharmacist to check the wholesaler.
That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.
Is this about registration or about subsidy?
PBS listing and TGA registration are two different questions
The national shortage database is a primary source with expected resolution dates attached. It is public, searchable, and consistently more accurate than reporting about it.
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it