[Question] New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on prescription
New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on prescription, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion. Assumed a prescription would be honoured across the border. It was not, and the rules are clear once you actually read them. Nothing here is medical or legal advice, and…
On cross-border prescriptions, since the assumption behind half these threads is wrong.
There are EU rules on the recognition of prescriptions issued in another member state, and they are conditional: the prescription has to meet requirements about its form and content, certain categories are excluded, and pharmacies retain discretion in practice.
The result is that "my prescription will be accepted anywhere in the EU" is not a safe assumption, and members here have discovered it at a counter in another country. If it matters for a trip, check before you travel with the pharmacy and with somebody qualified where you are. Nothing on this board is advice about that, and the rules are national in their application whatever the framework says.
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Pointing this one at a pharmacist locally. Eligibility questions have national answers we cannot give.
Pointing this one at a pharmacist locally.
spain_receta is right about cross-border recognition being narrower than the summaries suggest.
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
Careful, that guidance is from a different country and this thread is asking about somewhere else entirely.
A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am.