does pharmacy actually matter or is it forum lore at this point
does pharmacy actually matter or is it forum lore at this point — that is what I am asking, and I have already read the wiki twice. Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product. Nothing here is medical or legal advice,…
a prescription from one member state is not automatically valid in another
the same product has different names and pack sizes across the union
Is this a cross-border question or a domestic one?
Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty minutes and answered everything.
ask for the Beipackzettel or the local equivalent, it answers most questions
Apotheke pricing and pharmacy pricing elsewhere are different systems
Apotheke pricing and pharmacy pricing elsewhere are different systems
Adding the practical step — read your own country’s published criteria. They exist and they are definitive.
That shortage notice was national and does not apply where the question is coming from.
the reimbursement criteria are published in most member states
a shortage in one member state is not a shortage in all of them
the reimbursement criteria are published in most member states
Agreed — and normalising pack size before comparing prices is the fix for half these threads.
private pricing varies enormously between neighbouring countries
The variation between pharmacies inside my own country was larger than the variation I had been chasing across the border.