three years of compounding threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
three years of compounding threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
The two decisions that this whole board turns on, kept apart.
Registration means a product may lawfully be supplied. Subsidy listing means the public system will fund it, for a defined indication, against published criteria. They are made by different bodies on different timetables, and a product can be registered and unsubsidised for a given use for a long time.
Almost every "why can I not get this" thread here is really a question about the second decision being answered with facts about the first. Say which one you are asking about and the thread resolves in two replies.
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements.
This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.
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Did the pharmacy check with the wholesaler, or is that a shelf observation?
Cosigning on asking the pharmacy to check the wholesaler. It converts speculation into a fact in one phone call.
Is this about registration or about subsidy?
Have you checked the shortage database directly?
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
Which indication is the script written for?
compounded supply arrangements changed and the threads have not caught up
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.
Are you quoting advice from before the compounded arrangements changed?
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
Yes — importing US threads into an Australian question produces confident nonsense every single time.
Are you quoting advice from before the compounded arrangements changed?
Adding the quickest step — ask the pharmacist to check the wholesaler.
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.
Disagree — that is registration status, and the question was about subsidy. Different decisions, different bodies.
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.
This.
emil_barros is right that the two countries are separate systems and the answers diverge.
PBS listing and TGA registration are two different questions
Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing. They are made by different bodies.
the price you pay depends on the listing status of your indication
On the compounded supply question, which changed and left a trail of superseded threads.
The arrangements that governed compounded supply here have changed materially, and a great deal of what is written on this board describes the previous position. Search results do not carry a date warning, so people arrive at old threads and act on them.
If you are reading anything on this subject here, check when it was posted and check the current official position before relying on it. And if you know the current position well, writing it up plainly with a date on it is probably the single most useful thing anyone can post on this board this year.
Not convinced. That is the New Zealand position and the thread is asking about Australia.
Not convinced.
Agreed — the database rather than the coverage, every time.
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