[Discussion] TGA is doing more work than we give it credit for
TGA is doing more work than we give it credit for, which sounds obvious until you try to state the evidence for it.
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.
Compounded supply arrangements have changed materially in recent years. Advice predating that change describes a situation that no longer applies.
Australia and New Zealand have different regulators, different funding bodies and different arrangements. An answer for one is not evidence about the other.
If somebody has the same thing measured a different way, post it next to mine and we will see whether they agree.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Subsidy criteria and authority requirements are published. For eligibility questions those documents are authoritative and this board is not.
do not import US advice into an Australian thread
Read the published criteria for my indication rather than asking. Twenty minutes, and it answered everything I had been guessing at.
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.
keep the script and the receipt for private health claims
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The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
the shortage listing has an expected resolution date on it
Correction: that is the registration decision, not the subsidy listing. They are made by different bodies.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
Did the pharmacy check with the wholesaler, or is that a shelf observation?
I would not treat one pharmacy’s quote as the national price. Variation between them is substantial.
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.
personal importation rules exist and are narrow
Yes — importing US threads into an Australian question produces confident nonsense every single time.
Disagree — that is registration status, and the question was about subsidy. Different decisions, different bodies.
PBS criteria are published and searchable
pharmacy stock and national supply are different questions
the TGA shortage database is public and it is the source, not the news
say which state only if it matters, but always say which country
Yes — the shortage database is the source. The news coverage of it is downstream and usually a week behind.
Correcting myself: the compounded position changed and my earlier comment was describing the old one.
What did the pharmacy quote for the private price?
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