[Question] how do you actually verify Australia
how do you actually verify Australia. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
If two or three other people have done the same thing we might actually learn something. Alone it is an anecdote.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Where to look instead of asking, which will nearly always be faster.
The national shortage database is public, searchable and carries expected resolution dates. The subsidy criteria for each indication are published. Your pharmacist can check wholesaler availability in a few minutes, which is a different question from what is on the shelf.
Between those three, most questions on this board are answerable in half an hour with primary sources. The board is genuinely useful for experience, pricing comparison and the parts that are not written down anywhere — it is a poor substitute for a document that exists.
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly
do not import US advice into an Australian thread
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
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.
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
Cosigning on asking the pharmacy to check the wholesaler. It converts speculation into a fact in one phone call.
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.
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
Is this about registration or about subsidy?