why does nobody talk about pharmacy
why does nobody talk about pharmacy. I am not trying to be the "source?" guy. I would just like a source.
Pharmacy margins and dispensing fees are regulated nationally, which explains price differences that otherwise look arbitrary.
Published reimbursement criteria exist in most member states and are usually available in the national language. They are the authoritative answer to eligibility questions that this board can only guess at.
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.
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
Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity.
Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity.
Agreed — and normalising pack size before comparing prices is the fix for half these threads.
This. The published reimbursement criteria are the document to read, and most member states do publish them.
say which country or the thread is useless
Correction: that is the authorisation position, and the question was about reimbursement. Different bodies, different answers.
pharmacy margins are regulated differently in each country
Is this a cross-border question or a domestic one?
the same product has different names and pack sizes across the union
Pointing this one at a pharmacist locally. Eligibility questions have national answers we cannot give.
EU-wide advice is almost always wrong somewhere
Nothing here is medical or legal advice, and eligibility questions have national answers that a pharmacist where you live can give you in minutes.
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.