[TGA] shortage notice archive, worth bookmarking
shortage notice archive, worth bookmarking — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested.
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.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
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.
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.
Left up. It links the primary database rather than coverage of it, which is what we ask for.
PBS criteria are published and searchable
Is this about registration or about subsidy?
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Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
the price you pay depends on the listing status of your indication
Agreed that the published criteria are the authority. They are searchable and most people never look.
Disagree — that is registration status, and the question was about subsidy. Different decisions, different bodies.
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.
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.