[Question] the UK — has anyone got a straight answer on New Zealand
the UK — has anyone got a straight answer on New Zealand. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post.
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.
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.
On the compounded supply question, which changed and left a trail of superseded threads.
The arrangements that governed compounded supply here have changed materially, and a great deal of what is written on this board describes the previous position. Search results do not carry a date warning, so people arrive at old threads and act on them.
If you are reading anything on this subject here, check when it was posted and check the current official position before relying on it. And if you know the current position well, writing it up plainly with a date on it is probably the single most useful thing anyone can post on this board this year.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
the price you pay depends on the listing status of your indication
PBS-subsidised or private script?
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.
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
[removed by moderator]
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
Agreed. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions and half the confusion here is treating them as one.
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
the Medsafe position in New Zealand is its own thing entirely
Flagged as describing the superseded compounded arrangements — left up with a note rather than removed.
Flagged as describing the superseded compounded arrangements — left up with a note rather than removed.
Agreed — the database rather than the coverage, every time.
private script pricing varies by pharmacy here too
Agreed — the database rather than the coverage, every time.
careful_gradient_again is right that the two countries are separate systems and the answers diverge.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
Adding the quickest step — ask the pharmacist to check the wholesaler.
- 1Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years.…6 comments in this branch · started by u/tomas_broberg