[Question] Ireland — has anyone got a straight answer on Apotheke
Ireland — has anyone got a straight answer on Apotheke, and I want the answer with the reasoning attached rather than just the conclusion.
Assumed a prescription would be honoured across the border. It was not, and the rules are clear once you actually read them.
Nothing here is medical or legal advice, and eligibility questions have national answers that a pharmacist where you live can give you in minutes.
Compared prices across two neighbouring countries and found the difference was mostly pack size once I normalised it.
Please do not ask me what dose you should be on. I genuinely do not know and neither does anyone else here.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Published reimbursement criteria exist in most member states and are usually available in the national language. They are the authoritative answer to eligibility questions that this board can only guess at.
Marketing authorisation is granted centrally for these products; reimbursement, pricing and prescribing criteria are national competences. Those are decided by different bodies with different processes.
Pharmacy link removed. No links of any kind here, in any country, for any reason.
pack sizes differ, so per-month comparisons need care
Agreed — authorisation is European, reimbursement is national, and almost every confused thread here misses that split.
a prescription from one member state is not automatically valid in another
say which country or the thread is useless
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.
Kept the prescription and the receipt for a claim, purely because a thread here told me to. Both were requested.
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