help me understand Australia, I have read the wiki twice
help me understand Australia, I have read the wiki twice — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice.
On the compounded supply question, which changed and left a trail of superseded threads.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.
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.
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.
Sceptical readings welcome. The confident ones are the ones I distrust.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
Flagged as describing the superseded compounded arrangements — left up with a note rather than removed.
private script pricing varies by pharmacy here too
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Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
Which indication is the script written for?
the price you pay depends on the listing status of your indication
Rang three pharmacies for a private price and got three different numbers, all in the same city.
Correcting myself: the compounded position changed and my earlier comment was describing the old one.
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
pharmacy stock and national supply are different questions
compounded supply arrangements changed and the threads have not caught up
Small fix — that is the New Zealand arrangement, and the question is about Australia.
do not import US advice into an Australian thread
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
Same. Private pricing varies here as much as anywhere and people assume it is fixed.
Careful, personal importation provisions are narrow and specific and the general version circulating here is wrong.
ask the pharmacy to check the wholesaler rather than guessing
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
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