the shortage thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
the shortage thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested.
Asked the pharmacist to check the wholesaler and had a definite answer in about four minutes.
Kept the script and the receipt for a private health claim and both were requested.
The compounded arrangements changed while I was mid-thread and I was arguing from a superseded position.
Ask me anything specific. Anything general I will probably get wrong.
best — the order this archive was captured in
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.
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.
Country added to the title. Australia and New Zealand answers differ and the thread was unusable without it.
Correcting myself: the compounded position changed and my earlier comment was describing the old one.
Checked the shortage database myself instead of reading the coverage. Expected resolution date was right there and the panic thread was wrong.
private script pricing varies by pharmacy here too
Yes — the shortage database is the source. The news coverage of it is downstream and usually a week behind.
That is a pharmacy-level stock issue rather than a national supply issue. They feel identical and are not.
Assumed the New Zealand position applied here. It does not, and someone corrected me politely with the actual source.
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.
Personal importation provisions exist, are narrow, and carry conditions.
hamza_serrano is right that the two countries are separate systems and the answers diverge.
Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly
Australia and New Zealand are separate systems and get conflated weekly
Disagreeing with this bit: that advice predates the change in compounded arrangements.
Did the pharmacy check with the wholesaler, or is that a shelf observation?