[Meta] the TGA rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining
the TGA rule is doing its job and people should stop complaining. This affects how posts get sorted and removed, so it belongs in the open.
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.
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.
On the compounded supply question, which changed and left a trail of superseded threads.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.
I will update this if the picture changes rather than quietly leaving it up.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly
That figure is a private price at one pharmacy, not a national one.
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
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I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
Agreed. Registration and subsidy are separate decisions and half the confusion here is treating them as one.
Is this about registration or about subsidy?
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
Push back: the compounded arrangements changed and the advice you are quoting predates the change.
Right, and the compounded supply position moved. Threads from two years ago are describing a different situation.
ask the pharmacy to check the wholesaler rather than guessing
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
pharmacy stock and national supply are different questions
Correcting myself: the compounded position changed and my earlier comment was describing the old one.
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
compounded supply arrangements changed and the threads have not caught up
Which indication is the script written for?
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.
Registration by the therapeutic goods regulator establishes that a product may be supplied.
This is the distinction that makes the rest of the board legible.
the Medsafe position in New Zealand is its own thing entirely
Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing. They are made by different bodies.
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