three years of Australia threads, summarised so you do not have to read them
three years of Australia threads, summarised so you do not have to read them. I have gone back and forth on this for months.
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
Tell me where this is wrong. That is the useful part of posting it.
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.
Push back: the compounded arrangements changed and the advice you are quoting predates the change.
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.
personal importation rules exist and are narrow
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
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.
Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing. They are made by different bodies.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
Correcting myself: the compounded position changed and my earlier comment was describing the old one.
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
Disagree — that is registration status, and the question was about subsidy. Different decisions, different bodies.
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.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
That is a pharmacy-level stock issue rather than a national supply issue. They feel identical and are not.
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
private script pricing varies by pharmacy here too
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say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
Pharmacy staff name removed; the pharmacy itself can stay in a pricing post.
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
PBS listing and TGA registration are two different questions
Yes — importing US threads into an Australian question produces confident nonsense every single time.
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