[Discussion] can we stop arguing about New Zealand until somebody posts a number
Question in the title, detail here: can we stop arguing about New Zealand until somebody posts a number. 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. Compounded…
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.
That is a pharmacy-level stock issue rather than a national supply issue. They feel identical and are not.
PBS-subsidised or private script?
Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing. They are made by different bodies.
Not convinced. That is the New Zealand position and the thread is asking about Australia.
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.
Did the pharmacy check with the wholesaler, or is that a shelf observation?