[Question] how do you actually verify TGA
The title is the whole question — how do you actually verify TGA — but here is why I am asking.
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
Personal importation provisions exist, are narrow, and carry conditions. Any summary of them here should be checked against the current official wording rather than a forum post.
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.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
pharmacy stock and national supply are different questions
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
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.
Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly
Correcting myself: the compounded position changed and my earlier comment was describing the old one.
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
Same. Private pricing varies here as much as anywhere and people assume it is fixed.
keep the script and the receipt for private health claims
the Medsafe position in New Zealand is its own thing entirely
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.