[Meta] proposal — a flair for PBS posts
proposal — a flair for PBS posts, and it will stay as it is unless somebody makes the case to change it.
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.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
On the compounded supply question, which changed and left a trail of superseded threads.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.
Are you quoting advice from before the compounded arrangements changed?
Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing. They are made by different bodies.
Cosigning on asking the pharmacy to check the wholesaler. It converts speculation into a fact in one phone call.
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
This. New Zealand has its own regulator and its own funding decisions and the answers genuinely differ.
pharmacy stock and national supply are different questions
PBS listing and TGA registration are two different questions
Yes — importing US threads into an Australian question produces confident nonsense every single time.
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.
- 1the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news7 comments in this branch · started by u/chidi_yilmaz