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c/glp1aus·posted 2 months ago by u/blunt_coldbox_2024

genuine question about TGA that I am slightly embarrassed to ask

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Trying to get a straight answer on this: genuine question about TGA that I am slightly embarrassed to ask.

Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.

Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.

Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.

Screenshot none of this. Read the whole thread, including the parts where I am told I am wrong.

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u/jarno_cabrera20 points·2 months ago

Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.

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u/blunt_coldbox_20249 points·2 months ago

That is a pharmacy-level stock issue rather than a national supply issue. They feel identical and are not.

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u/blunt_coldbox_2024OP2 points·2 months ago

What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?

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u/mod_cold_roommod · c/coldchain1 point·2 months ago

Is this about registration or about subsidy?

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u/hedda_adeyemi8 points·2 months ago

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 timetable.

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u/gustav_solberg0 points·2 months ago

Not convinced. That is the New Zealand position and the thread is asking about Australia.

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u/tuva_kirchner1 point·2 months ago

PBS criteria are published and searchable

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u/kenji_kimani9 points·2 months ago

Push back: the compounded arrangements changed and the advice you are quoting predates the change.

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u/lane_watchermod · logistics7 points·2 months ago

Yes — the shortage database is the source. The news coverage of it is downstream and usually a week behind.

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u/tl_dr_tina0 points·2 months ago

Pharmacy-level availability and national supply are different questions: a pharmacy can be out while the wholesaler is not, and the pharmacist can check in minutes.

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u/aussie_pbs_watchMOD4 points·2 months ago

Flagged as describing the superseded compounded arrangements — left up with a note rather than removed.

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u/usp_appendixcompendial3 points·2 months ago

Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.

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