[Question] New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on prescription
New Zealand — has anyone got a straight answer on prescription, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
Assumed a prescription would be honoured across the border. It was not, and the rules are clear once you actually read them.
Nothing here is medical or legal advice, and eligibility questions have national answers that a pharmacist where you live can give you in minutes.
Compared prices across two neighbouring countries and found the difference was mostly pack size once I normalised it.
That is everything I have. The rest is opinion and I have tried to keep it out.
best — the order this archive was captured in
On cross-border prescriptions, since the assumption behind half these threads is wrong.
There are EU rules on the recognition of prescriptions issued in another member state, and they are conditional: the prescription has to meet requirements about its form and content, certain categories are excluded, and pharmacies retain discretion in practice.
The result is that "my prescription will be accepted anywhere in the EU" is not a safe assumption, and members here have discovered it at a counter in another country. If it matters for a trip, check before you travel with the pharmacy and with somebody qualified where you are. Nothing on this board is advice about that, and the rules are national in their application whatever the framework says.
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.
Pointing this one at a pharmacist locally. Eligibility questions have national answers we cannot give.
Pointing this one at a pharmacist locally.
spain_receta is right about cross-border recognition being narrower than the summaries suggest.
the EMA authorises, member states decide who pays
Careful, that guidance is from a different country and this thread is asking about somewhere else entirely.
A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am.
Cross-border prescription recognition exists under EU rules but is conditional and narrower than commonly assumed, with requirements about the prescription’s form and content.
pack sizes differ, so per-month comparisons need care
cross-border prescription rules exist and they are narrower than people think
That is an authorisation question and you have answered a reimbursement one. They are decided by different bodies.
the same product has different names and pack sizes across the union
Right, and a shortage notice in one country tells you very little about the next one along.
Are you comparing the same presentation, or different pack sizes?
Kept the prescription and the receipt for a claim, purely because a thread here told me to. Both were requested.
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