[Question] New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on shortage
New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on shortage. Searched first, found three threads that contradict each other, hence the post.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
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.
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.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
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Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
Is this about registration or about subsidy?
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
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.
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.
pharmacy stock and national supply are different questions
Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing. They are made by different bodies.
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
Agreed that the published criteria are the authority. They are searchable and most people never look.
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
private script pricing varies by pharmacy here too
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
Agreed that the published criteria are the authority.
Adding the quickest step — ask the pharmacist to check the wholesaler.
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.
The national shortage database is a primary source with expected resolution dates attached.
This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.
personal importation rules exist and are narrow
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