[Question] Sweden — has anyone got a straight answer on Apotheke
Sweden — has anyone got a straight answer on Apotheke. I would rather ask a basic question now than get this wrong quietly for two months.
Compared prices across two neighbouring countries and found the difference was mostly pack size once I normalised it.
Read the published reimbursement criteria where I live rather than asking. Took twenty minutes and answered everything.
Assumed a prescription would be honoured across the border. It was not, and the rules are clear once you actually read them.
Research-use-only material is not approved for human use and nothing here should be read as a recommendation to use it.
best — the order this archive was captured in
Cross-border prescription recognition exists under EU rules but is conditional and narrower than commonly assumed, with requirements about the prescription’s form and content.
Cross-border prescription recognition exists under EU rules but is conditional and narrower than commonly assumed, with requirements about the prescri
This is the split the whole board depends on. Authorisation is European; payment is national.
Supply notices are issued nationally. A notice in one member state does not imply availability problems in another, even for the same product.
A supply notice in one member state made the front page here and had no effect at all where I am.
Asked in my own language at a local pharmacy and got a clearer answer in five minutes than a fortnight of forum reading.
Pharmacy margins and dispensing fees are regulated nationally, which explains price differences that otherwise look arbitrary.