reading New Zealand threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly
Something I keep coming back to: reading New Zealand threads from 2024 and half of it aged badly.
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
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.
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.
Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.
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.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
keep the script and the receipt for private health claims
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
Which indication is the script written for?
the Medsafe position in New Zealand is its own thing entirely
Left up. It links the primary database rather than coverage of it, which is what we ask for.
That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.
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.
Yes — the shortage database is the source. The news coverage of it is downstream and usually a week behind.
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
Did the pharmacy check with the wholesaler, or is that a shelf observation?
compounded supply arrangements changed and the threads have not caught up
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
On the compounded supply question, which changed and left a trail of superseded threads.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.
PBS criteria are published and searchable
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
ask the pharmacy to check the wholesaler rather than guessing
personal importation rules exist and are narrow
Is this about registration or about subsidy?
do not import US advice into an Australian thread
do not import US advice into an Australian thread
Agreed — the database rather than the coverage, every time.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
private script pricing varies by pharmacy here too
private script pricing varies by pharmacy here too
Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.
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