[Meta] proposal — a flair for New Zealand posts
proposal — a flair for New Zealand posts. Short post, long comment section, probably.
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
The two decisions that this whole board turns on, kept apart.
Registration means a product may lawfully be supplied. Subsidy listing means the public system will fund it, for a defined indication, against published criteria. They are made by different bodies on different timetables, and a product can be registered and unsubsidised for a given use for a long time.
Almost every "why can I not get this" thread here is really a question about the second decision being answered with facts about the first. Say which one you are asking about and the thread resolves in two replies.
Someone posted US advice in an Australian thread and it took four replies to untangle it. Say your country.
Happy to answer the boring questions. Those are usually the ones worth asking.
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On the compounded supply question, which changed and left a trail of superseded threads.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.
That is a pharmacy-level stock issue rather than a national supply issue. They feel identical and are not.
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
Where to look instead of asking, which will nearly always be faster.
The national shortage database is public, searchable and carries expected resolution dates. The subsidy criteria for each indication are published. Your pharmacist can check wholesaler availability in a few minutes, which is a different question from what is on the shelf.
Between those three, most questions on this board are answerable in half an hour with primary sources. The board is genuinely useful for experience, pricing comparison and the parts that are not written down anywhere — it is a poor substitute for a document that exists.
Where to look instead of asking, which will nearly always be faster.
nl_verzekering is right that the two countries are separate systems and the answers diverge.
PBS criteria are published and searchable
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.
keep the script and the receipt for private health claims
compounded supply arrangements changed and the threads have not caught up
Push back: the compounded arrangements changed and the advice you are quoting predates the change.
Push back: the compounded arrangements changed and the advice you are quoting predates the change.
This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
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.
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
The national shortage database is a primary source with expected resolution dates attached.
Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.
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