the Apotheke thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
Something I keep coming back to: the Apotheke thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down. Pack sizes and presentations differ between member states, so a headline price is not comparable until it is normalised to a common quantity. Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does…
What does the local patient information leaflet say?
EU-wide advice is almost always wrong somewhere
What does the local patient information leaflet say?
Disagreeing with this bit: that criterion belongs to one member state and is being quoted as general.
Careful, that guidance is from a different country and this thread is asking about somewhere else entirely.
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the reimbursement criteria are published in most member states
Disagree. That is one member state’s reimbursement rule and it does not generalise across the union.
Yes. Pack sizes differ enough that per-month price comparisons across borders need to be normalised before they mean anything.
Marketing authorisation is granted centrally for these products; reimbursement, pricing and prescribing criteria are national competences. Those are decided by different bodies with different processes.
Is the prescription from the same country as the pharmacy?
ask for the Beipackzettel or the local equivalent, it answers most questions