help me understand shortage, I have read the wiki twice
Asking properly rather than in a comment on somebody else’s thread: help me understand shortage, I have read the wiki twice.
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
Corrections welcome, especially the pedantic ones. Pedantry is how this board earns its reputation.
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.
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
Not convinced. That is the New Zealand position and the thread is asking about Australia.
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.
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.
Registration by the therapeutic goods regulator establishes that a product may be supplied.
lipid_panel_larry is right that the two countries are separate systems and the answers diverge.
lipid_panel_larry is right that the two countries are separate systems and the answers diverge.
Adding the quickest step — ask the pharmacist to check the wholesaler.
PBS listing and TGA registration are two different questions
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
the Medsafe position in New Zealand is its own thing entirely
PBS criteria are published and searchable