the New Zealand thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
the New Zealand thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down. Not a hot take, just something I have not seen said plainly here.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was 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.
Personal importation provisions exist, are narrow, and carry conditions. Any summary of them here should be checked against the current official wording rather than a forum post.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
Left up. It links the primary database rather than coverage of it, which is what we ask for.
the Medsafe position in New Zealand is its own thing entirely
That is a pharmacy-level stock issue rather than a national supply issue. They feel identical and are not.
Left up.
Agreed — the database rather than the coverage, every time.
On the compounded supply question, which changed and left a trail of superseded threads.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.
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
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.
Which indication is the script written for?
Agreed. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions and half the confusion here is treating them as one.