[PSA] New Zealand is not what most of this community thinks it is
New Zealand is not what most of this community thinks it is, and I say this having got it wrong myself for long enough to be annoyed about it.
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.
Not medical advice, obviously, and nothing here is approved for human use. One person with a spreadsheet.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
Disagree — that is registration status, and the question was about subsidy. Different decisions, different bodies.
Agreed that the published criteria are the authority. They are searchable and most people never look.
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
Which indication is the script written for?
pharmacy stock and national supply are different questions
Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing. They are made by different bodies.
Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing.
This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
do not import US advice into an Australian thread
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.
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.
Flagged as describing the superseded compounded arrangements — left up with a note rather than removed.
Same. Private pricing varies here as much as anywhere and people assume it is fixed.
Are you quoting advice from before the compounded arrangements changed?
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
personal importation rules exist and are narrow
Have you checked the shortage database directly?
Cosigning on asking the pharmacy to check the wholesaler. It converts speculation into a fact in one phone call.
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